Ryan Sean Adams

Thanks a lot.

Bankless Nation, we are here with Alpen Uxololu.

He is an investment and a research partner at Paradigm.

Also the co-author of a paper titled EVM Bench, an open benchmark for smart contract security agents written in collaboration with OpenAI to measure the ability of AI agents to just detect or patch or exploit smart contract vulnerabilities.

We're going to talk about the way that AI and AI capabilities are going to impact our crypto ecosystem, our smart contracts.

Alpen, welcome to Bankless.

Hi, thanks for having me.

I want to start off this podcast with a very big question.

How at risk are we from AI?

How large of a threat does AI smart contract capabilities pose to our industry?

Yeah, I think what you're saying is in the long term, we get something approaching perfect security.

Yeah.

Right now, we do not have perfect security.

Let me ask you the same question, but a little bit differently.

Say only bad actors, only black actors have access to AI capabilities.

In that context, how at risk is our industry?

Like how exploitable are our smart contracts given the increase in AI capabilities?

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