Jason Lowery, known for his research at NASA, has argued that Bitcoin could become an important defense mechanism against AI-based cyber threats in the future.
According to Lowy, current digital security systems face a significant risk of breach, especially when autonomous AI agents are involved in cyberattacks.
Lowy said the emergence of AI-powered “hacker agents” is an inevitable outcome, a process that is accelerating as the cost of computing power approaches zero. According to Lowy, such AI systems will be able to overcome all human-designed cyber defense mechanisms that operate solely on conditional and permission-based logic. He argued that classic software-based security approaches are currently insufficient.
Lowy described Bitcoin as a natural counterbalance to this threat, drawing attention to the network’s underlying proof-of-work mechanism. Lowry said that the weakness of artificial intelligence is the computational cost, and argued that this is exactly where Bitcoin comes into play. He pointed out that Bitcoin is a global protocol that directly ties computational and energy costs to physical limits, and that these costs also translate into tradable digital assets.
According to Lowy, Bitcoin is the first and only global system that uses the cost of electromechanical computation as “constraint collateral.” This means that instead of defenses based solely on logical rules, physical and economic limitations that artificial intelligence cannot overcome become part of the security equation. Lowry suggests that this structure could allow all computing systems in the future to rely on Bitcoin as a layer of defense against artificial intelligence threats.
Lowry argued that frequently describing Bitcoin as “digital gold” is an incomplete approach, and said this narrative does not adequately reflect Bitcoin’s long-term role. According to the expert, by 2030 and beyond, Bitcoin could become not only a store of value, but a fundamental building block of global computing security.
*This is not investment advice.
