One simply must raise a perfectly sculpted eyebrow. The Ethereum frontman, the delightfully cerebral Vitalik Buterin, has descended from his digital Olympus to bestow upon us a prediction. And it’s not about gas fees, darling, for a change. No, it’s about how the youth might use those frightful AI bots to become frightfully clever. Positively thrilling, if you can stomach the thought.
He also, in a moment of startling self-awareness, deigned to comment on that modern malaise we all pretend we don’t indulge in: doomscrolling. One must have a hobby, I suppose. 🧐
The Oracle of Ethereum Speaks
chatting up AI bots. He predicts the next generation of geniuses will be those tedious teenagers who spend their formative years interrogating a chatbot about quantum physics for hours on end. A riveting prospect. Their small talk at parties will be simply murder. 🤖
there are good things to doomscroll and bad things to doomscroll
I predict some of the smartest people of the next generation will be people who spend their teenagehood curiously asking the bot all kinds of questions about science, the world, etc for hours a day
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– vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) August 23, 2025
Naturally, for every future Nobel laureate, there will be a thousand adolescents wasting their precious youth asking the AI for gossip about influencers or, heaven forbid, relationship advice. A perfectly balanced ecosystem, as all things should be. 😒
A Swan of a Different Colour Weighs In
But wait, the intellectual circus has two rings! The ever-charming Nassim Taleb, author of that cheerful little tome “The Black Swan” (a delightful beach read, if your beach is on the edge of an abyss), has also chimed in. He suggests AI might not replace your doctor just yet, but it could certainly make medical school a tad obsolete. A boon for autodidacts, a nightmare for student loan officers. A trade-off, darling, always a trade-off.
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2025-08-23 23:12