AI doom is basically power + incentives going off the rails.
Bitcoin is the fix because it’s the one thing that reliably does all of this at once:
1) It kills the “one god-AI controls everything” endgame
AI doom scenarios usually assume a tiny cluster of labs + governments + cloud providers become the switchboard of reality.
Bitcoin is the opposite topology: no king, no master key, no permission. If money stays sovereign, power can’t fully centralize.
2) It makes AI economically accountable
Right now, AI can scale externalities: spam, manipulation, fake content, mass persuasion—cheap.
Bitcoin flips the game to cost and proof:
- micropayments → rate limits spam at the base layer (you want reach? pay)
- markets → incentives reward signal over noise
- skin-in-the-game → actors can’t run infinite chaos for free
3) It funds the counter-force: open, distributed builders
If the “doom” story is closed AI owned by a few, Bitcoin creates a parallel economy that funds:
- open-source models
- independent safety research
- decentralized infrastructure
- censorship-resistant publishing + education
4) It anchors the digital world to physics
AI is pure abstraction: text, images, persuasion, simulation.
Bitcoin is digital… but grounded in real-world energy and thermodynamics (proof-of-work). It’s a reality check: you don’t get infinite power for free.
5) It gives humanity an escape hatch
Even if AI captures platforms, banks, payment rails, and institutions—Bitcoin stays a minimum viable freedom layer:
- savings you can custody yourself
- settlement that doesn’t ask permission
- a way to coordinate globally without a gatekeeper
The spicy thesis
If AI is a superweapon of centralized coordination, Bitcoin is the immune system of decentralized coordination.
What “Bitcoin solves AI doom” looks like in practice
- Pay-per-message / pay-per-request on the internet (spam dies)
- Micropayment APIs for agents (no ad-driven manipulation economy)
- Open compute + open model marketplaces priced in sound money
- Content provenance + reputation systems tied to economic cost (harder to fake at scale)
- Independent humans staying solvent while the world gets weird
If you want, I’ll turn this into a full ERIC KIM-style manifesto: ruthless, loud, and built for virality.