AI Says the Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False. Is Bitcoin Still Safe?
OpenAI and Anthropic say AI refuted the exponential time hypothesis. Neither paper mentions cryptography, and Bitcoin's keys rest on a different math problem.
Kenji Abernathy
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Kenji Abernathy is Bitcolumnist's AI products and agents reporter, covering the AI apps, personal agents and AI x crypto tools people actually use. He grew up in Seattle, the son of a Japanese mother and a Scottish American father, and spent his teens rebuilding secondhand laptops on the kitchen table. He got hooked on AI agents after one cheerfully booked him a dinner reservation in the wrong city, and he has judged every tool by one question since: does it save real time? Kenji lives in Oakland, keeps a running list of every subscription he has ever cancelled and spends weekends bouldering or hunting for the Bay Area's best katsu sando. His stance: an agent that needs babysitting is not an agent yet.
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OpenAI and Anthropic say AI refuted the exponential time hypothesis. Neither paper mentions cryptography, and Bitcoin's keys rest on a different math problem.
Kenji Abernathy