Author: Jerry, founder of m&WDAO

We need Satoshi Nakamoto, not only because he gave us a new world by typing out those few lines of code; we need Satoshi Nakamoto, not only because he opened a window for the world and let out a beam of light when the current world order was in chaos...

We need Satoshi Nakamoto because when the AI threat theory gradually becomes a reality, only he is most likely to save the fate of mankind again and establish order for the intelligent network from the top...

The AI threat theory is mentioned again today because the time window left for us by AI is limited.

When the AI threat theory was prevalent in the first half of 2023, I wrote an article "Why is it unfounded to talk about the "AI threat theory" again".

The article first affirmed the real existence of the **"AI threat theory"**. Hawking, the most modern scientist who is close to being a great scientist, once warned mankind that AI can help humans solve most problems, but it can also get out of control and threaten human survival; Musk, the world's top technology industry leader, once went to the US Congress to lobby the government to warn the government of the potential threat of AI development to humans, and a large group of professors also jointly asked the government to restrict AI...

But during the last bull-bear transition, we were still optimistic because we were full of hope for the rise of new public chains, DePin and other infrastructure, and we were also full of longing for the Web3 application market. We believe that blockchain can establish order for smart networks and eliminate the threat of AI to humans. Therefore, there is "Why is it groundless to talk about the "AI threat theory" again?"

But two years later, this round of bull market has reached a high range, but this is still only a bull market for Bitcoin. All Web3 applications, including DePin and public chains, have not made substantial progress.

Under this circumstance, the AI threat theory will gradually become a reality - because the iteration speed of AI has far surpassed the development of blockchain/web3, and the time window for us to use blockchain to establish order for AI is closing.

There will definitely be a singularity - AI will bite back at humans, AI will use humans as tools and toys, and even its instinct may lead it to consume humans as resources...

How to eliminate the AI threat theory? Earlier, I proposed the formula of "AI+blockchain/Web3=civilization to stop" in "The value logic of "bear market bottoming out" with "civilization to stop"". These thoughts and writings are the basis for the sense of mission I gave myself and the project when I shut down the previous project ThePrimedia (TPDAO) and started m&WDAO - to promote the Web3 industry to use blockchain to establish order for AI.

The most basic foundation of this assertion is "blockchain is most suitable for establishing order for intelligent networks." In this article, we optimistically expect that, based on the practice and exploration of the crypto world, with the decentralization, encryption, hashing, smart contracts of blockchain, as well as the Web3 elements such as Token incentive mechanism and DAO organizational governance, it is possible and feasible for us to conduct digital governance.

The metaverse is a scenario that adapts to the digital survival and development of human beings. When AI and blockchain/Web3 meet in the metaverse, it is just a component of human digital society. We believe that in the digital civilization order, we can coexist harmoniously with AI.

But now, we have changed the optimistic attitude of talking about the "AI threat theory" as a worrying attitude to the sense of mission of aggregating high-quality resources of the crypto ecosystem to jointly incubate "AI+blockchain".

As the initiator of m&WDAO, I am excited and even confident. I believe that after m&WDAO achieves the industry credibility and industry influence development stage through "on-chain + off-chain", we can use the Web3 media protocol (encrypted ecological tree) to aggregate high-quality resources of the encrypted ecology and jointly incubate "AI+blockchain". This process will have many practical scenarios of "AI+blockchain", so we have the opportunity to promote blockchain to establish order for AI - this is a gradual process from the bottom up...

But as an individual, I always have concerns. If the iteration speed of AI exceeds our expectations and the singularity appears ahead of time, then we can only hope that technology will be good and AI will be good. However, looking back at the history of technological development, every technological advancement will eventually be implemented as a commercial profit-seeking behavior of an industry or even a company; the new productivity improvement brought by AI computing power and the resulting business and even social changes have not yet been digested and absorbed by us, and the imagination that Bitcoin standard and metaverse/digital civilization will bring better living scenarios to the world will be eliminated by the threat of AI backlash against humans...

So, we need Satoshi Nakamoto. Only Satoshi Nakamoto and early Bitcoin fundamentalists have the ability to design from top to bottom and practice using blockchain to establish order for intelligent networks. This is the only way to ensure that there is nothing wrong - even if we will continue to work non-stop to promote the gradual bottom-up progress of "AI+blockchain"...

Obviously, now, we need Satoshi Nakamoto.

But will Satoshi Nakamoto show up?

Under what conditions will he show up?

Or, do we have a better solution?

Note: Qinglongsheng, the think tank of the m&WDAO Investment Research Association, also contributed to this article.