OpenAI co-founder Trask: cryptography is the only worthy adversary of AI
iamtrask · x · 2026-09-05
iamtrask, OpenAI co-founder and noted AI researcher, tweeted that cryptography is the only worthy adversary of AI, because it enables humans to hold the keys. The take is read as support for constraining AI via verifiable mathematics rather than soft rules.
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