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Did nobody tell him SHA-256 is literally the hashing backbone of the entire internet? TLS/HTTPS, certificate signatures, HMAC-based API auth (AWS SigV4 says hi), DNSSEC, JWT, Git — all of it runs on SHA-256. If it "gets hacked," it's not Bitcoin that gets cooked, it's every bank, every government portal, every HTTPS connection on the planet. Good luck to traditional finance when their TLS certificates become forgeable overnight. Also, no — AI doesn't crack hash functions. That's not a pattern-matching problem. There's no known mechanism, AI or otherwise, that finds SHA-256 preimages or collisions meaningfully faster than brute force. The best known attack is Grover's algorithm on a large quantum computer, which still leaves you at 2^128 operations. But sure, let's panic about LLMs inverting one-way functions. The reality is the guy clearly doesn't understand the topic and is just throwing "AI" around to sound credible. Maybe leave crypto security takes to people who actually know what a hash function is.