29-07-2025
Cornell Tech Professor Warns AI Agents And Crypto Spell Trouble
Picture this: an autonomous AI agent launches a memecoin, raises millions, and uses the funds to destabilize a government, says Olga Kharif.
Or offers a bounty — paid in crypto — for hacking an S&P 500 company. Or worse: deploys a smart contract to hire a killer.
This isn't a Black Mirror episode. It's a scenario painted by Bill Marino (University of Cambridge) and Ari Juels (Cornell Tech) in their new paper: 'Giving AI Agents Access to Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts Creates New Vectors of AI Harm.'
