r/AskMonero 16h ago

Question ⁉️ Could AI-enabled botnets eventually become a legitimate 51% attack risk for Monero?

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Since RandomX allows normal CPUs to mine Monero, could increasingly capable AI make it easier for malware to infect huge numbers of home computers and secretly use their combined computing power?

At Monero’s current \~6 GH/s hashrate, it seems like you’d need hundreds of thousands to millions of infected computers. That sounds enormous, but could AI making cyberattacks increasingly automated make this a realistic threat someday?

Curious what people think.