Justin Drake

It has no airbag.

And while today, you know, we can steer relatively comfortably at 100 miles an hour, next year, we're going to be at 200 miles an hour.

And then the year after that, 300 miles an hour.

And eventually, we're just going to be driving irresponsibly fast that we're going to crash into a tree or into a wall or we're going to drive off a cliff.

And I think for me, working on Ethereum has taken a whole new meaning in the last few months.

To a large extent, I was ignoring AI, partly because I was just so obsessed with blockchain stuff, but also partly because it was a toy just not long ago.

But what's happening is that through my work, especially with formal verification and development and coding, I'm just seeing how powerful this stuff is.

And in the last few weeks and months, I've just been obsessed by AI, just learning as much as I can, watching many, many videos.

And I'm by no means an expert, and maybe this is just some sort of a phase that people go through when they open Pandora's box, but

For me, working on Ethereum is now all about defensive accelerationism.

And I don't see other parts of society that are working on the braking system.

It's just all gas.

And the good news, I guess, is that

Ethereum has a lot of the thinking and a lot of the tools that potentially could provide some of the solutions.

So by day one, we assume adversariality.

By day one, we're making use of technology like cryptography that empowers the weak and make sure that even the strong, the arbitrary strong, cannot break certain things.

We're trying to be the source of truth, if you will.

We're trying to be decentralized and

and try and give people sovereignty.

And like all of these words, they're at least in the right direction.