Marc van der Chijs, an entrepreneur who co-founded then bitcoin miner Hut 8 (HUT), has change into more and more involved in regards to the know-how to which the corporate has pivoted: synthetic intelligence.
“I’ve change into extra of a doomer over the previous week, to be sincere,” he instructed CoinDesk in an interview.
The priority marks a shift for an investor who compares AI’s potential immediately with bitcoin when he entered the market in 2013. He nonetheless expects the know-how to remodel the economic system, however more and more questions whether or not people can retain management over its improvement.
“We’ve misplaced management, truly,” he stated. “And till we get the management again, I’m truly fearful that we’re transferring too quick.”
Van der Chijs’s shift towards a “doomer” outlook mirrors warnings issued by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who urged tech leaders to gradual the tempo of frontier AI improvement. Amodei equally cautioned that fast progress—pushed by AI fashions recursively enhancing themselves—dangers exceeding human management and inflicting widespread infrastructure injury.
Each males level to the identical structural entice: an intense aggressive race between corporations and nation-states that penalizes particular person restraint, making systemic disruption or catastrophic failure appear nearly inevitable earlier than true worldwide guardrails are established.
AI exposing vulnerabilities
Van der Chihs fears a serious disruption, doubtlessly affecting monetary techniques or essential infrastructure, could also be wanted earlier than governments cooperate.
