GPT-4 Identifies Vulnerability in Ethereum-based Smart Contract

The Coinbase director Conor Grogan tested the OpenAI GPT-4 language model by showing it a smart contract for an Ethereum-based application. The algorithm identified its potential applications and uncovered several security vulnerabilities.

I dumped a live Ethereum contract into GPT-4.

In an instant, it highlighted a number of security vulnerabilities and pointed out surface areas where the contract could be exploited. It then verified a specific way I could exploit the contract pic.twitter.com/its5puakUW

— Conor (@jconorgrogan) March 14, 2023

In 2018 hackers hacked this contract, exploiting the vulnerability flagged by the AI model.

This is the contract: https://t.co/6TTq9WRfb7

— Conor (@jconorgrogan) March 14, 2023

Grogan is confident that, in the end, artificial intelligence will help make smart contracts safer and easier to create. It will address two principal obstacles to the technology’s mass adoption, he added.

As reported in March, OpenAI introduced a large multimodal model GPT-4.

In December 2022, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin tested ChatGPT and stated that AI will not be able to replace programmers in the near future.