d/acc: One Year Later

By Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin describes how democratic, defensive and decentralised technologies could distribute AI's power across society rather than concentrating it, offering a middle path between unchecked technical acceleration and authoritarian control.

Source:

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/05/dacc2.html

A podcast by BlueDot Impact.

Learn more on the AI Safety Fundamentals website.

Chapters

• 2:52 What d/acc is and is not
• 12:57 The third dimension: survive and thrive
• 18:06 The hard question: AI safety, short timelines and regulation
• 19:49 First, the case for caution around new regulations
• 21:40 Strategy 1: Liability
• 25:16 Strategy 2: Global "soft pause" button on industrial-scale hardware
• 28:49 d/acc technologies in AI risk
• 30:12 The role of crypto in d/acc
• 32:35 d/acc and public goods funding
• 38:27 The future