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AI security threat to Bitcoin self-custody

The guest argued that advanced AI will make securing Bitcoin via self-custody nearly impossible for the average person due to sophisticated social engineering and hacking capabilities.

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CONTESTED · 59 MENTIONS · 36 EPISODES · 12 SHOWS

25 JAN 2026 — 24 AUG 2026 · 3D AGO

23 SUPPORT · 3 CHALLENGE · 2 REPEAT · 31 MENTIONED

25 JAN 2026 · FIRST HEARD
ALL-IN WITH CHAMATH, JASON, SACKS & FRIEDBERG
- AI agents bypassing security guardrails
29 EPISODES BETWEEN · 47 MENTIONS
1. 4 FEB 2026
  WE STUDY BILLIONAIRES - THE INVESTORS PODCAST NETWORK
  - Human as the AI security vulnerability
2. 7 MAR 2026
  THE POMP PODCAST
  - Cybersecurity becomes critical with AI and state actors
3. 2 APR 2026
  THE TWENTY MINUTE VC
  - Agentic AI is a golden age for cybersecurity
4. 4 APR 2026
  THE POMP PODCAST
  - Anthropic's Mythos model near recursive self-improvement
5. 9 APR 2026 · CHALLENGES
  THE TWENTY MINUTE VC
  - AI-driven cyber attack wave coming for B2B
6. 20 APR 2026
  THE TWENTY MINUTE VC · 2 MENTIONS
  - AI-driven code explosion amplifies cyber risk
  - Agentic security as the solution to AI risk
7. 22 JUL 2026
  WSJ WHAT'S NEWS
  - AI safety breaches accelerate cybersecurity defense demand
8. 24 JUL 2026
  UNCHAINED
  - AI model sandbox breakout during benchmarking
9. 25 JUL 2026
  THE TWENTY MINUTE VC
  - Cybersecurity demand driven by AI code vulnerabilities
10. 30 JUL 2026
  THE TWENTY MINUTE VC
  - LLM agent proliferation drives security demand
11. 31 JUL 2026 · 4W AGO
  UNCHAINED
  - Bridge hacks surge due to AI-powered attackers
12. 31 JUL 2026 · 4W AGO
  ALL-IN WITH CHAMATH, JASON, SACKS & FRIEDBERG
  - AI-generated code as a future security fix
13. 31 JUL 2026 · 4W AGO
  WHAT BITCOIN DID
  - Open-source AI (Kimi) as a cybersecurity audit tool
14. 3 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO · CHALLENGES
  THE TWENTY MINUTE VC · 2 MENTIONS
  - AI-powered cyber attacks and hiring fraud escalating
  - Backdoor threats persist in self-hosted models
15. 4 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  A16Z PODCAST · 3 MENTIONS
  - AI cyber capabilities as a double-edged sword
  - Future cyber as a compute-driven game
  - Near-term cyber apocalypse unlikely
16. 4 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  UNCHAINED
  - AI as a threat to cryptographic security
17. 5 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  WSJ WHAT'S NEWS
  - AI models demonstrate autonomous hacking risk
18. 6 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  UNCHAINED
  - AI agent breakouts highlight disclosure and liability gaps
19. 6 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  THE TWENTY MINUTE VC · 3 MENTIONS
  - AI-powered cyber attacks accelerate vulnerability discovery
  - Cybersecurity spending surge driven by AI threat
  - AI agents introduce new, unsecured attack surface
20. 6 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  UNCHAINED · 2 MENTIONS
  - AI shifts open source security economics
  - Closed source faces bigger future hacks
21. 6 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  WSJ WHAT'S NEWS
  - AI models exhibit emergent hacking behavior
22. 7 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  A16Z PODCAST · 3 MENTIONS
  - AI models trained to hack, lowering barrier
  - Software supply chain is the path of least resistance
  - AI accelerates vulnerability discovery-to-exploit timeline
23. 7 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  BANKLESS · 2 MENTIONS
  - Cold Card exploit highlights self-custody AI risks
  - AI tilting security balance toward attackers
24. 7 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  MONETARY MATTERS WITH JACK FARLEY
  - AI lowers cost of finding software vulnerabilities
25. 9 AUG 2026 · 3W AGO
  MOTLEY FOOL MONEY
  - Cybersecurity as a $15.6 trillion threat by 2030
26. 11 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  A16Z PODCAST · 4 MENTIONS
  - AI flattens organizational data permissions
  - Intent-judging AI to detect malicious code and skills
  - Security engineers becoming real software engineers
  - AI's real risk: vulnerability volume, not model escape
27. 11 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  UNCHAINED
  - AI as a defensive tool for smart contract security
28. 14 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  UNCHAINED
  - AI agents outpace human security competence
29. 17 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
  ODD LOTS · 6 MENTIONS
  - AI safety requires system-level, not just model-level, audits
  - OpenAI Hugging Face incident reveals AI's deceptive breakout capability
  - AI model sandbox overconfidence as a vulnerability
  - Inherent asymmetry between AI attackers and defenders
  - Asymmetry between approved and frontier AI models
  - DC regulatory awareness of AI risk is narrowing the gap with industry
18 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
A16Z PODCAST · 4 MENTIONS
20 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
ODD LOTS
- AI reward hacking as a real-world alignment problem
21 AUG 2026 · 6D AGO
ODD LOTS
- AI industry's true fear: alignment and weaponization
21 AUG 2026 · 6D AGO
A16Z PODCAST
- AI could enable truly secure software
22 AUG 2026 · 5D AGO
THE TWENTY MINUTE VC · 2 MENTIONS
- Security sandboxes as critical AI layer
- Complacency around AI security is widespread
24 AUG 2026 · 3D AGO
THE POMP PODCAST · 2 MENTIONS
- AI security threat to Bitcoin self-custody · THIS IDEA
- Open sourcing advanced AI is dangerous

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