Veteran investor Cathie Wood voiced her support on Tuesday for Bitcoin Policy’s open letter, which urges AI labs to aid “open-source defenders.”
Calls for Trusted Access to Frontier Models
“Frontier AI could become one of the most powerful defensive technologies ever developed, but only if defenders get fair access to those systems,” Bitcoin Policy Institute said.
The letter said that “digital-asset defenders,” including Bitcoin Core developers, lack access to approved cybersecurity research programs, and frontier-model guardrails block real security work, so they fall back on “less capable” open-weight models for critical reviews
Wood Calls Bitcoin a ‘Critical Public Financial Infrastructure’
Wood endorsed the letter, stressing the potential of AI to become a “powerful defensive technology.”
The Ark Invest founder described Bitcoin as a “critical public financial infrastructure” and demanded that those securing it have access to the “most powerful AI models” available.
Wood’s Bullish on AI, Bitcoin
Wood remains a strong advocate of AI, arguing that the technology has already sparked a "technology revolution."

