The popularity of OpenAI’s text-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform ChatGPT has reinvigorated the public’s interest in the underlying technology due to its utility in multiple areas, and one cryptocurrency exchange executive has decided to test its abilities in finding flaws in Ethereum (ETH) smart contract.

Specifically, Conor Grogan, director of crypto trading platform Coinbase, has dumped a live Ethereum contract into the newest version of the popular chatbot, GPT-4, and it highlighted multiple security vulnerabilities and surface areas where the smart contract could be exploited, as he said in a Twitter post on March 14.

Additionally, Grogan posted screenshots of the AI bot’s analysis, which indeed seem to show that ChatGPT is capable of correctly identifying critical issues and vulnerabilities, as it concluded that the analyzed smart contract “should not be used, as it contains critical vulnerabilities and is based on an illegal scheme.”

(By Ana Nicenko)