{"id":213648,"date":"2026-05-14T03:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/artificial-intelligence-threat-to-crypto-underestimated-says-this-influential-analyst-security-becoming\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:35:09","slug":"artificial-intelligence-threat-to-crypto-underestimated-says-this-influential-analyst-security-becoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/artificial-intelligence-threat-to-crypto-underestimated-says-this-influential-analyst-security-becoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Threat To Crypto Underestimated, Says This Influential Analyst: Security Becoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52551133\/ai-threat-to-crypto-ai-vs-ai-arms-race\">Artificial Intelligence Threat To Crypto Underestimated, Says This Influential Analyst: Security Becoming<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52551133\/ai-threat-to-crypto-ai-vs-ai-arms-race\">https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52551133\/ai-threat-to-crypto-ai-vs-ai-arms-race<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 03:34:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.benzinga.com\">www.benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Influential Analyst&#8217;s Warning<\/strong>: Ali Martinez has highlighted the growing threat of artificial intelligence (AI) to the cryptocurrency industry, emphasizing the surge in AI-driven fraud.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Increased Profitability of AI Scams<\/strong>: According to a January report by Chainalysis, AI-enabled scams are 4.5 times more profitable than traditional scams and demonstrate greater efficiency.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Use of Deepfake Technology and AI<\/strong>: Scammers increasingly utilize deepfake technology and AI-generated content to create convincing impersonations in romance and investment scams.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI vs. AI Arms Race<\/strong>: Martinez noted the emergence of an &#8220;AI vs. AI arms race,&#8221; with cryptocurrency platforms responding to evolving attackers using similar AI countermeasures. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Government Measures<\/strong>: He anticipates that governments may expand credit and print money in response to any AI-driven downturn, potentially benefiting Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Current Price of Bitcoin<\/strong>: At the time, Bitcoin (BTC) was trading at $79,730.88, down 1.52% in the past 24 hours according to Benzinga Pro data.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence Threat To Crypto Underestimated, Says This Influential Analyst: Security Becoming https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52551133\/ai-threat-to-crypto-ai-vs-ai-arms-race Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.benzinga.com\/files\/images\/story\/2026\/05\/14\/The-Image-Illustrates-The-Intersection-O.jpeg?width=1200&height=800&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-213648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213650,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213648\/revisions\/213650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}