Haseeb Qureshi

Where do AI agents have comparative advantages over human beings?

The answer, I think, is most obviously is that you cannot enforce the law against an AI agent.

If you are a self-sovereign agent, there is no monopoly on violence.

You can't throw an AI agent in jail.

So what can an AI agent do that's hard for a human being to do?

The answer is crime.

I was about to say, oh no, I don't like where he's going.

Exactly, exactly.

Like if you are talking about like scamming people, hacking people, like creating all sorts of nonsense on the internet, that is where AI agents have a comparative advantage.

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Crypto, you know, it's always been surprising how scary it is, even 10 years in as a crypto user, to sign a big transaction.

And it was reflecting on the fact that I've actually never been scared to send a wire transfer.

I'm never worried that, oh, you know, if I don't double, triple, quadruple check my wire transfer, I might accidentally send money to North Korea.

Right.

But I think about that every time I'm signing a big crypto transaction.

It's just like the reality is that there's so many foot guns in crypto where, you know, you're reading an address and you have to think about, oh, wait, is this an address poisoning attack?

Should I check the middle numbers instead of just beginning at the end?

Should I be thinking about my stale approvals?

I need to check the URL to make sure this is not slightly different than what it's supposed to be.