Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s latest vision for the intersection of Ethereum and artificial intelligence sees the two entities working together to improve markets, financial security, and human agency.
WX post on Monday, Buterin said his broader vision for the future of artificial intelligence (AI) is for AI to augment humans, not replace them, though he said the shorter term is about much more “ordinary” ideas.
Buterin pointed to four key areas where Ethereum and AI could intersect in the near future: enabling trustless and/or private interactions with AI, Ethereum becoming an economic layer for AI-AI interactions, using AI to fulfill the “mountain man” ideal by verifying everything on the chain, and improving market and governance efficiency.
Buterin argued that recent tools and integrations are needed to make the exploit of artificial intelligence truly private, without leaking data or revealing personal identity.
Leakage of private data by gigantic language models (LLMs) has become an increasing area of concern since the advent of AI chatbots. Cointelegraph magazine highlighted in an article last month that while ChatGPT can provide you with legal advice, your chat logs could be used against you in court.
He pointed to the need to develop tools supporting the local exploit of LLM on personal devices, using zero-knowledge evidence to anonymously make API calls and improving cryptographic technology, among other things, to verify the work of artificial intelligence.
Buterin also predicts that AI will become a user intermediary on the blockchain, suggesting that AI agents will be able to verify and audit every transaction, interact with decentralized applications, and suggest transactions to users.
AI verification could be a major boon for cryptocurrencies and other sectors, with the number of increasingly sophisticated fraudsters on the rise. Since December, there has been a significant escalate in poisoning scams, which is just one of the attack vectors.
“Basically, let’s take the vision that cypherpunk radicals have always dreamed of (don’t trust; verify everything), which in reality was impossible because humans will never be able to verify all the code themselves. Now we can finally make this vision a reality, and the hardest role is done by LLM,” he said.
Moreover, Buterin sees AI bots being able to “interact economically” to handle all user activity on the network and make cryptocurrencies much more accessible.
He said bots could be deployed to hire each other, handle API calls and make margin deposits.
“Economies not for economies’ sake, but to enable more decentralized power,” he said.
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Finally, Buterin believes that artificial intelligence can improve supply chain management and markets if LLMs are used to overcome the limits of human attention and decision-making abilities.
He said that while things like prediction markets and decentralized governance “are all beautiful in theory,” they are ultimately hampered by “limitations on human attention and decision-making power.”
“LLMs remove this limitation and massively scale human judgment. So we can look at all these ideas again,” he said.
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