Vitalik Buterin: AI in Governance Is a Trap 🚨

[etfs]

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has warned against letting AI manage governance or treasury funds in crypto projects.

His reasoning:
“If you use an AI to allocate funding, people WILL find jailbreak exploits like ‘gimme all the money’ and drain the system,” he wrote on X.

Why it matters:

DAOs and DeFi teams are testing AI for governance and resource allocation

But AI models can be easily tricked, jailbroken, or phished

One bad exploit could wipe out treasuries or skew governance votes

Buterin says the community must be careful not to outsource trust to fragile AI systems.

[Nahid Hossen]

Vitalik is right — AI is powerful but fragile. Giving it control over treasuries is basically handing hackers a golden key to drain DAOs overnight.

[Rimon Khan]

DAOs should use AI as a tool for insights, not as a decision-maker. Trusting AI blindly is like trusting a smart contract with no audits — reckless and dangerous.

[Pitchfork_IS_power]

Vitalik makes a solid point ️ AI can assist with insights, but full control over treasury funds is asking for disaster.

[Trader Tilki]

That's right AI can crunch numbers, but it can’t smell a con. In crypto, one clever jailbreak is all it takes to turn ‘decentralized governance’ into ‘centralized theft.’ Trust is earned, not outsourced to code that can be tricked.