Vitalik Buterin says AI could accelerate Ethereum’s roadmap by decades

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Ethereum developers and people following the network’s roadmap are the immediate audience for this statement. It frames the timeline for future upgrades as something that could move over a much longer horizon unless AI advances are present, with the security question also brought into view.

What changes in practice is the timeframe being discussed for Ethereum’s development goals, which is now described in terms of decades rather than near-term planning. What does not change in the text is that the roadmap is still a roadmap: the goal itself remains, even as the timing is presented differently.