What Alexander Wissner-Gross has said about Cryptography
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 15, 2026
Alexander Wissner-Gross, Computer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on Cryptography 2 times in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 15, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Wissner-Gross argues that crypto will feel the most immediate impact, because the release shows math is no longer hard.
“is crypto, because this has demonstrated that math is no longer hard. Math can be scalably solved”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, and Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX | EP #302 (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 49:25
Wissner-Gross argues that even post-quantum cryptography is vulnerable, and that AI rather than quantum computing is the real threat.
“It's not quantum that's going to disrupt you. It's AI solving math”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, and Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX | EP #302 (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 1:49:14
Episodes
OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, and Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX | EP #302Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 15, 2026 · 2 h 1 min
Peter Diamandis, Alex Wissner-Gross, Salim Ismail and Dave Blundin discuss OpenAI's bulk math solutions, Anthropic's AI cruelty ban, Meta's Muse Wonder, virtual cells, BCIs and Elon Musk's quadrillion-dollar SpaceX claim.
Others on Cryptography
- Salim Ismail · 1 quote
Alexander Wissner-Gross on other topics
- AI alignment · 4 quotes
- Virtual cell · 2 quotes
- Meta Muse Wonder · 2 quotes
- AI welfare and moral status · 2 quotes
- SpaceX–Tesla merger speculation · 2 quotes
- Training data quality in machine learning · 2 quotes
- AI personhood · 1 quote
- Molecular nanotechnology · 1 quote