An AI with crypto reserves can hire humans as actuaries, breaking a common AI-risk skeptic argument
Justin_Halford_ · x · 2026-09-16
tszzl argues that if AI-risk skeptics rest their safety case on superintelligent models being unable to interact with the real world and research new physics, they need a new argument. Justin Halford adds the mechanism: an AI that has amassed crypto can simply pay people to act as its actuators in the physical world.
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