Balaji Srinivasan: Drone control systems must move on-chain to prevent hacking
Balaji Srinivasan · Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money · Jul 28, 2025 · at 1:10:42
Balaji Srinivasan explains the necessity of integrating blockchain technology with autonomous defense systems on The a16z Podcast.
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“There's a crypto angle to at least three of them, because obviously there's a crypto angle to money, there's a crypto angle to AI in terms of constraints. This crypto angle to the drones, because you're going to want the control plane for the drones to be on chain, since that's the part that can't get hacked, whereas the Pentagon can get hacked.”
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