I wrote a bit about related topics in Will AI end the social internet?.¹

I don't think they can. X already uses bots as an excuse to KYC people. I expect it'll get worse as AI goes beyond passing the Turing Test. Perhaps there will be an arms race and something beyond KYC checks will gate the open internet. If not, services that prevent abuse by checking for human-like digital behavior will be abused because machines will have human-like digital behavior.

Maybe that's okay. Maybe that's what people want. Maybe people want what they want - human or not.

Outside of developing foundational models and task-specific models, the talent in AI is dressing up and composing models to do useful things. Bitcoin has tons of regulatory scrutiny that AI does not, so dressing up and composing bitcoin protocol things is relatively difficult. Bitcoin will attract less talent, develop more slowly, and produce relatively anemic products as a result imo.

I suspect AI will do to programming what photographs did to painting. Where programming isn't valued for the human element, it won't be done by humans. Programming will cease being done where it's only done for utility.

I don't know what this means, but if I take it to mean, "where did my programming career peak" ... I think it's still peaking, still referencing related past experience while encountering new, more difficult experiences. I'm working on weird problems that I'm drawn to that are too weird for anyone else to care about until I prove their utility. That doesn't really change with AI. It just makes expressing my weird desires and solutions easier.

It's the most powerful, valuable, impactful medium for self-expression that I've found.