A decade later, I am watching the same misunderstanding attach itself to artificial intelligence (AI), and it is costing the industry time it does not have. That is the actual texture of compliance work today, and it is why good people burn out of the profession. Good automation does not shrink the compliance function; it moves it off the treadmill of triage and back toward judgment. AI is no longer only a tool that compliance teams use; it is becoming a participant in the market they monitor. So yes, AI is coming for crypto compliance.