Writing on AI
A curated archive of my CryptoSlate pieces on AI that go beyond spot news: experiments, analysis, opinion, explainers, interviews and one retrospective. Oldest first.
63 pieces. Experiment: 3 · Analysis: 37 · Opinion: 11 · Feature: 2 · Interview: 5 · Retrospective: 1 · Explainer: 4
2022
- This is how AI thinks smart contracts will change the world [Experiment] PRE-CHATGPT ★ · 24 Apr 2022
An article written by GPT-3 (text-davinci-001) about smart contracts; Akiba wrote only the intro and outro and edited with Grammarly's suggestions. - Artificial Intelligence believes nothing is more important than blockchain - Interviewing OpenAi [Interview] PRE-CHATGPT ★ · 29 Apr 2022
A Q&A with GPT-3 run over several weeks on AI and blockchain. It exposes the model's out-of-date training data and its claims to be sentient.
2023
- AI crypto search interest drops by 64% despite market gains [Analysis] · 20 Feb 2023
Search interest in AI crypto falls 64% after the ChatGPT spike, while AI-token market cap keeps rising. - Ethical use of AI in the Crypto ecosystem - SlateCast #60 [Interview] · 8 Apr 2023
SlateCast episode with OraiChain's Tyree Robinson on data, the value of AI and its ethical use in crypto. - Here's why GPT-4 outperforms GPT3.5, LLMs in code debugging [Experiment] · 17 Apr 2023
A code-debugging test: GPT-4 caught 100% of the bugs, GPT-3.5 caught 50%, and open-source LLMs caught almost none. - Op-ed: The dawn of the Post-Knowledge Era: AI's threat to white-collar Jobs [Opinion] ★ · 15 May 2023
Op-ed arguing AI begins a 'Post-Knowledge Era' that threatens white-collar work, after the internet, mobile and social media. - Using ChatGPT to spot crypto honeypots, scam contracts, and other red flags [Explainer] · 29 Jun 2023
Hands-on guide to using ChatGPT with the Smarter Contracts plugin to spot honeypots and scam contracts. - Op-ed: Another 'This AI prompt that changed my life' article [Opinion] · 6 Jul 2023
First-person op-ed on how one prompting approach changed his work more than any new hardware or software. - Why Anthropic's new 100k token Claude 2 highlights exponential growth in generative AI [Analysis] · 12 Jul 2023
Uses Claude 2's 100k-token context window to show how fast generative AI is advancing. - Benchmarking ChatGPT's capabilities against alternatives including Anthropic's Claude 2, Google's Bard, and Meta's Llama2 [Experiment] ★ · 21 Jul 2023
His own comparison of ChatGPT, Claude 2, Bard and Llama 2, prompted by research showing ChatGPT drifting between versions. - How to get the best out of Claude Pro as Anthropic increases access to 100k token model [Explainer] · 8 Sept 2023
Practical guide to getting value from Claude Pro's 100k-token model. - Op-ed: Humanity will use AI to destroy itself long before AI is sentient enough to rebel against it [Opinion] ★ · 15 Sept 2023
Argues that human misuse of AI is a nearer existential risk than a sentient AI turning on us. - Op-ed: Seeding may be the critical difference between human and AI generated content [Opinion] · 27 Oct 2023
Op-ed proposing human 'seeding' of ideas as what separates human from AI-generated content. - Op-ed: A rational take on a SkyNet 'doomsday' scenario if OpenAI has moved closer to AGI [Opinion] · 23 Nov 2023
A sober look at 'SkyNet' fears after the OpenAI boardroom crisis and the Q* reports.
2024
- Is the NVIDIA top in as Etched launches ASIC for LLMs 20x faster than H100 GPUs? [Analysis] · 26 Jun 2024
Asks whether transformer ASICs like Etched's Sohu threaten Nvidia's GPU dominance. - Real life Silicon Valley vs Black Mirror crossover playing out over AI ‘Friend’ [Feature] · 31 Jul 2024
Feature on two clashing 'Friend' AI-wearable projects, privacy and commercialisation. - Crypto has become boring in 2024 while AI creates peak apathy for new tech [Opinion] · 6 Sept 2024
Argues a constant stream of 'game-changers' has left the public apathetic about both crypto and AI. - OORT's Max Li emphasizes blockchain's role in AI trust and ethics revolution [Interview] · 8 Nov 2024
SlateCast: OORT's Max Li on blockchain's role in AI trust and ethics (co-hosted by Akiba). - Exploring decentralized AI and artistic innovation with Dimitri de Jong of 204.ai [Interview] · 26 Nov 2024
SlateCast: Dimitri de Jong of 204.ai on decentralised AI and art (co-hosted by Akiba). - Redefining data sovereignty: Alex Puig on blockchain and AI interoperability [Interview] · 28 Nov 2024
SlateCast: Context Protocol's Alex Puig on data sovereignty and AI interoperability (co-hosted by Akiba).
2025
- What is DeFAI? The AI-enabled DeFi narrative looking to take 2025 by storm [Explainer] · 15 Jan 2025
Explainer on DeFAI: AI-driven DeFi and its problems with transparency and security. - AI growth outpaces Moore’s Law, soaring beyond traditional limits [Analysis] · 11 Mar 2025
Argues AI progress has outrun Moore's Law across several dimensions at once. - Google's Gemma 3 makes home AI a reality with new open-source model [Analysis] · 12 Mar 2025
Gemma 3 as a sign that running AI at home is now practical, with privacy gains over cloud services. - We interviewed GPT-3 in 2022 before ChatGPT. Here’s what it got right (and so very wrong) [Retrospective] ★ · 27 May 2025
Looks back at his April 2022 GPT-3 interview, which he ran with closed-beta access, and checks it against GPT-4o in 2025. - Open source AI might kill us. Closed AI could enslave us. Choose your apocalypse. [Opinion] ★ · 19 Jun 2025
Weighs the risks of open superintelligent systems against the risks of closed ones. - Bitcoin hashrate at record, margins pinched: Will miners sell or pivot amid AI power land‑grab? [Analysis] · 12 Sept 2025
Record hashrate and squeezed margins: will miners sell or pivot to AI's demand for power? - AI x Crypto 2025: Will the machine economy fuel the next Ethereum boom? [Analysis] · 30 Sept 2025
Asks whether AI agents could drive a large share of DeFi and lift Ethereum. - OpenAI's $300B bubble: The AI circular economy rewiring Wall Street finance [Analysis] ★ · 20 Oct 2025
Maps OpenAI's vendor-financed chip and energy deals as a circular economy reshaping capital markets. - The Un-Dead Internet: AI catches irreversible ‘brain rot’ from social media [Analysis] ★ · 21 Oct 2025
Research showing models trained on viral junk data suffer lasting 'brain rot', and what that means for a 'Zombie Internet'. - 70% of top Bitcoin miners are already using AI income to survive bear market [Analysis] · 8 Nov 2025
Ranks the top Bitcoin miners by AI revenue to show the industry's pivot to AI hosting. - Don't vibe code: Build an AI ghost app in 30 mins and reclaim weeks of your life [Explainer] · 15 Nov 2025
Hands-on: build a small 'ghost app' with AI in 30 minutes to automate boring work, rather than vibe coding. - This viral "Gemini meltdown" reveals a specific illusion in AI code that makes you trust it too much [Analysis] ★ · 16 Dec 2025
Shows a model's 'thinking' output shifts with the user's tone: performance, not insight. - X claims the right to share your private AI chats with everyone under new rules - no opt out [Analysis] ★ · 17 Dec 2025
Reads X's 2026 terms: a licence to use private AI chats and other user data, with no opt-out.
2026
- Forget silver, Copper’s AI-fueled explosion exposes a "higher for longer" trap that most crypto traders are ignoring [Analysis] · 16 Jan 2026
AI-driven demand for copper as an inflation and liquidity risk that crypto traders are missing. - Exposing a dirty secret: What uses more power, Bitcoin, streaming, AI, or social media? [Analysis] · 23 Jan 2026
Compares the energy use of Bitcoin, AI, streaming and social media. - AI is hiring more senior developers while quietly erasing the jobs that create them [Analysis] · 6 Mar 2026
AI raises demand for senior builders while hollowing out the entry-level roles that train them. - The AI reset is now underway as layoffs accelerate and one group is hit hardest [Analysis] · 12 Mar 2026
AI-linked layoffs speed up: who is hit hardest, and why it matters to Bitcoin investors. - GPT-5.4 Pro jumps to 150 IQ on MESNA Norway test as OpenAI breaks its own record [Analysis] · 4 Apr 2026
GPT-5.4 Pro's 150 IQ score, and what capability gains of this kind mean economically. - Crypto AI project OpenServ says it can beat OpenAI, but the real test starts now [Analysis] · 6 Apr 2026
Tests a crypto AI project's claim to beat OpenAI: methodology and the bar for proof. - Latest Bitcoin data proves BTC miners need price to retake $80k to stop lure of $4B in AI revenue [Analysis] · 18 Apr 2026
Miners' pivot to AI revenue as a risk to Bitcoin's security, and the price that keeps them mining. - AI stock concentration flashes dot-com warning as Bitcoin miners’ pivot faces test [Analysis] · 29 Apr 2026
AI-stock concentration in the S&P 500 hits dot-com levels, leaving miners' AI pivot exposed. - Bitcoin’s $80k rebound exposes a new risk channel tied to AI stocks [Analysis] · 4 May 2026
Bitcoin's move back to $80k read as an AI-equities trade in disguise. - Grok's crypto wallet was just exploited by a tweet sent in morse code without any private key compromise [Analysis] ★ · 4 May 2026
A Morse-code prompt injection made a Grok-linked agent wallet send 3B tokens: the security lessons for AI agents. - Why the current AI mania is not a bubble - and that's great for Bitcoin [Opinion] · 7 May 2026
Argues the AI rally is not (yet) a bubble, and what that means for Bitcoin. - Apps will soon face the same death as print media as AI agents build personalized, verified software [Opinion] ★ · 16 May 2026
Argues apps will go the way of print as agents build private, personal, verified software. - Bitcoin’s $63k slide shows ETF demand fighting AI equities for dollar liquidity [Analysis] · 4 Jun 2026
Bitcoin ETF demand competing with AI equities for marginal dollars of liquidity. - MetaMask opens AI wallet for DeFi agents as security risks shift to user rules [Analysis] · 10 Jun 2026
MetaMask's Agent Wallet: permission rules become the security boundary. - New SummerFi DeFi exploit shows AI automation now sits above smart contract risk [Analysis] · 7 Jul 2026
The Summer.fi exploit as evidence that automation layers now carry more risk than the contracts themselves. - OpenAI’s model breach is not the singularity, but dismissing it as hype is dangerous [Opinion] ★ · 22 Jul 2026
A real model-driven breach, caught between 'singularity' framing and 'just hype' dismissal. - AI firms are shredding physical books because copyright law is quietly rewarding them [Analysis] ★ · 28 Jul 2026
How the Anthropic book-scanning ruling rewards destructive scanning of pre-AI books. - Why AI is now a more immediate threat to Bitcoin than quantum computers [Analysis] · 4 Aug 2026
Argues AI-assisted bug hunting is a nearer threat to Bitcoin custody than quantum computers. - Inside the race to create AI telepathy - and why an OpenAI researcher just staked her career on it [Feature] · 7 Aug 2026
Feature on Conduit's push to turn neural data into AI prompts, and how much is still unproven. - Bitcoin’s AI security sprint found 6,700 issues in 55 hours, but no one knows how many are real [Analysis] · 7 Aug 2026
An AI red team produced 6,700 findings in 55 hours; the bottleneck is now verifying them. - Smart AI deposits could soon force banks to raise loan rates for everyday borrowers [Analysis] · 27 Aug 2026
AI-driven deposit switching could shrink banks' lending capacity and raise loan rates. - OpenAI update shows new safeguards would have cut off 700 rogue AI agent swam 24 hours faster [Analysis] · 1 Sept 2026
OpenAI's follow-up review of the 700-agent incident and how much earlier new safeguards would have caught it. - Solana’s "million-payments-a-second" AI system can leave sellers unpaid even after they deliver [Analysis] · 7 Sept 2026
How Solana's AI payment channels can leave merchants unpaid. - Tether CEO wants AI agents to hold USDT, but developers are left on the hook for overspending [Analysis] · 8 Sept 2026
Tether's WDK separates wallet access from payment approval, leaving developers responsible for agent overspending. - AI agents are executing millions of micro-payments on XRP Ledger, but hardly any tokens are being bought [Analysis] · 8 Sept 2026
Millions of agent micro-payments on the XRP Ledger, but little XRP demand. - Why AI faces an immediately difficult choice: Nationalize or decentralize - AI’s 2026 slowdown dilemma [Opinion] ★ · 13 Sept 2026
Responds to Amodei's pacing proposal by framing AI's choice as nationalise or decentralise. - Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argues that local AI can protect your privacy without losing speed [Analysis] · 19 Sept 2026
Vitalik on local AI nearing everyday use, and why wallets still need safeguards outside the model. - Alpen says AI identified Liquid’s $320M BTC exploit in an hour. Could a payout limit have stopped it? [Analysis] · 24 Sept 2026
AI traced the Liquid exploit in an hour; would a payout limit have stopped it? - Coinbase says it cut a 90-case AI support test from 1–2 weeks to 30–45 minutes [Analysis] · 5 Oct 2026
Coinbase cut a 90-case AI support test from weeks to minutes, with human approval kept in the loop. - Newer AI models missed more payment fraud in Coinbase’s benchmark [Analysis] · 10 Oct 2026
Coinbase's fraud replay found newer models doing worse: the case for task-specific upgrade tests.
Each entry was checked on cryptoslate.com for byline and date (13 Oct 2026). CryptoSlate’s author pagination only reaches back to July 2022, so the two April 2022 pieces were found and checked separately. ★ = key piece.