Recently, I have noticed that @ VitalikButerin has been quite critical of the AI track. For example, it is suggested to delay AGI for four years before it occurs, stating that what AI truly fears is the permanent concentration of power, and so on. If you think this statement is too 'halal', and then look at the market's complaints that college students cannot afford Claude MAX, can it blur the general idea? Some people even say that Vitalik said this to give support to Crypto, especially those who pursue AI while stepping on Crypto to no avail 。 But we seem to have forgotten one thing: what Crypto has been doing for the past decade is ultimately making rules run in code (Code is Law), not on a centralized institution's server. ETH's smart contracts, Bitcoin's PoW, and various decentralized permissionless protocols are essentially pushing in this direction. Because in the era of blockchain equality, a college student and a billionaire have at least the same permissions for on chain interactions. But looking at the development trajectory of AI, it is exactly the opposite. The stronger the model, the higher the training cost, the higher the inference cost, and the smaller the population that can truly use it "frictionlessly" (if you think that cost does not equal friction, you can skip it...) One day, the market will realize that the more AI develops, the greater the value of decentralization, which is even stronger and more intense than the demand for decentralization protocols under the banner of anti banking and financial monopoly.