Bitcoin Red Team, BPI and 40+ firms join forces to close the AI security Gap
More than forty crypto companies are urging top AI labs to allow approved Bitcoin security experts to use the cutting-edge models already in the hands of hackers. This request is coordinated by the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) and explains that access to technologies, including those from OpenAI and Anthropic as a defensive imperative for software that protects over $1 trillion worth of assets.
The premise is based on a gamble that remains unclear. If both criminals and researchers have access to the same technology, what does this mean for Bitcoinโs safety? The letter from BPI acknowledges that the technology is dual-use in that models allowing a programmer to search for problems in a large system also allow a malicious user to do the same.
The gap the letter is trying to close
In BPIโs view, it is unclear as to who is going to be equipped with weaker tools. According to the letter, when frontier systems ignore prompts about security or lock certain key functionalities behind programs that bypass using any open-source financial architecture, maintainers are forced to resort to weaker open-weight models. Attackers are not under such constraints.
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