The Defiant

← The Defiant19 Jun · 26 min

"Bazooka in Every Hand" Do We Really Want Unstoppable AI? w/ Jake Brukhman, Haseeb Qureshi, Jesus Rodriguez

"Bazooka in Every Hand" Do We Really Want Unstoppable AI? w/ Jake Brukhman, Haseeb Qureshi, Jesus Rodriguez19 Jun26 min

<p>Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Commerce forced Anthropic to shut down Fable V for the entire world. One government, one decision, zero global access. Is this the definitive case for decentralized AI? </p><p>Jake Brukhman (Coin Fund), Jesus Rodriguez (Sentora), and Haseeb Qureshi (Dragonfly) debate the hottest topic at the intersection of crypto and AI: whether frontier AI can and should be decentralized — or whether we&#39;re repeating the same mistakes as decentralized storage.What you&#39;ll hear: why the government hand-picked who gets access to Mythos (and it wasn&#39;t Anthropic&#39;s call), whether consumer GPU swarms can realistically compete with data centers, what&#39;s really happening with on-chain hacks in 2026, and Haseeb&#39;s most controversial take: the world&#39;s most powerful AI should be treated like a nuclear weapon, not a public good.No easy answers. No consensus. Just the most important debate of 2026.</p>