Vitalik Buterin argued that accelerating AI capabilities and intrusive interfaces are intensifying threats to personal privacy, requiring urgent adoption of privacy-preserving technologies like ZK-SNARKs and fully homomorphic encryption

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we have more powerful tools to preserve privacy, especially in the digital realm, than the 1990s cypherpunks could have imagined: highly efficient zero knowledge proofs (ZK-SNARKs) can protect our identities while revealing enough information to prove that we are trustworthy, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) can let us compute over data without seeing the data, and obfuscation may soon offer even more

Today, however, privacy can no longer be ignored. AI is greatly increasing capabilities for centralized data collection and analysis while greatly expanding the scope of data that we share voluntarily

Buterin warns AI may deepen privacy intrusions, suggests cryptographic solutions for data protection.

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