Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum's goal is to liberate humanity, and increasing the feedback gap between humans and AI is "not a good thing."

PANews reported on February 20th that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated in an article on the X platform that widening the feedback gap between humans and artificial intelligence "is not a good thing." Current trends often lead to AI generating low-quality content instead of truly solving real human problems, and even failing to optimize entertainment experiences. Vitalik further warned that once AI develops to a sufficiently powerful and potentially dangerous stage, this development path could maximize the risk of "irreversible, anti-human consequences," even causing its proponents to deeply regret their actions. Ethereum's goal is "to liberate humanity," not to create a self-contained system that fails to improve or even worsens the human condition.

Furthermore, Vitalik Buterin points out that current mainstream models operate on centralized infrastructures such as OpenAI and Anthropic, and are not truly "self-sovereign." This disregard for the centralized trust assumption runs counter to the principles that Ethereum opposes. The exponential growth trend of technology is inherently unstoppable; therefore, the core task of our time is not to further accelerate exponential expansion, but to guide its development and prevent the system from sliding into an uncontrollable or undesirable "attractor" state.