TechVitalik Buterin says local AI can protect privacy without sacrificing speed

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says Qwen 3.8 Flash and improvements to llama.cpp have brought local AI close to handling a large share of tasks on a high-end laptop. A local model could select what context to send to stronger remote systems, limiting exposure of personal data. But wallet software still needs stronger safeguards before AI can control crypto assets, since prompt-injection resistance, authorization and transaction correctness remain unresolved.

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