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AI and crypto isn\u2019t just a buzz phrase<\/strong><\/h2>\n

AI Eye has been out and about at Korean Blockchain Week and Token2049 in Singapore over the past fortnight, trying to find out how crypto project leaders plan to use AI.<\/p>\n

Probably the most well-known is Maker founder Rune Christensen, who essentially plans to relaunch his decade-old project as a bunch of sub-DAOs employing AI governance.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople misunderstand what we mean with AI governance, right? We\u2019re not talking about AI running a DAO,\u201d he says, adding the AI won\u2019t be enforcing any rules. \u201cThe AI cannot do that because it\u2019s unreliable.\u201d Instead the project is working on using AI for coordination and communication \u2014 as an \u201cAtlas\u201d to the entire project, as they\u2019re calling it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHaving that sort of central repository of data just makes it actually realistic to have hundreds of thousands of people from different backgrounds and different levels of understanding\u00a0 meaningfully collaborate and interact because they\u2019ve got this shared language.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Near founder Illia Polosukhin may be better known in AI circles as his project began life as an AI startup before pivoting to blockchain. Polosukhin was one of the authors of the seminal 2017 Transformer paper (\u201cAttention Is All You Need\u201d) that laid the groundwork for the explosion of generative AI like ChatGPT over the past year.<\/p>\n

Polosukhin has too many ideas about legitimate AI use cases in crypto to detail here, but one he\u2019s very keen on is using blockchain to prove the provenance of content so that users can distinguish between genuine content and AI-generated bullshit. Such a system would encompass provenance and reputation using cryptography.<\/p>\n