Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI
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Where do agents have competitive advantages over human beings? The answer I think is most obviously is that you cannot enforce the law against an agent. If you are a self sovereign agent, there's no monopoly on violence. You can't throw an AI agent in jail. So what can an AI agent do that's hard for a human being to do? The answer is crime.
I'm known to say, oh no. Exactly.
Like, if you're talking about like scamming people, hacking people, like, creating all sorts of nonsense on the Internet, that is where AI agents have a competitive advantage.
Hassib, welcome back to Bankless.
Thanks for having me. Always good to be here.
Question for you, Hasib. Why isn't crypto made for humans?
Crypto, you know, it's always been surprising how scary it is even ten years in as a crypto user to sign a big transaction. And it was reflecting on the fact that I've actually never been scared to send a wire transfer. I've never worried that, oh, you know, if I don't double, triple, quadruple check my wire transfer, I might accidentally send money to North Korea. Right. But I I think about that every time I'm signing a big crypto transaction. It's just like the reality is that there's so many foot guns in crypto where, you know, you're reading an address and you have to think about, oh, wait
This is uninterpretable to me.
It's literally non deterministic, right? Whereas a smart contract is actually machine code. It is actually compiled into the EVM byte code, and you can analyze it step by step. This is exactly what will happen in a 100% of scenarios. Now as human beings, we might know that that's true, but we don't feel that that's true. It doesn't feel intuitively true to us that the legal contract is actually less predictable than the smart contract. To us, it's the other way around. Even though there's all this randomness in the legal contract, we find the legal contract much easier to predict what's going
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