Despite #AI dominating every conversation, the most fascinating developments often occur at the intersection of AI and other technologies, such as quantum computing, blockchain, and cybersecurity.

Since its inception in 2016, I have chaired Australia’s blockchain standards committee, witnessing the rise, fall, and resurgence of interest and diverse use cases of blockchain/crypto. Vitalik Buterin’s recent article on AI and crypto has sparked another wave of intriguing discussions. https://lnkd.in/giK3VC9j

Questions arise: 
1) Is AI a player in the crypto world? 
2) Is AI an interface to the crypto world? 
𝟑) 𝐈𝐬 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞-𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞?
𝟒) 𝐎𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐲/𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧/𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞?

I’ll leave that for you to ponder.

CSIRO’s Data61 is definitely working on the latter two aspects. The third underpins some of our market formation work in ESG/supply chain to eliminate greenwashing and build trust in the market.

Regarding the fourth, a new paper (by Yue Liu, Qinghua LuHelen Hye-young Paik and me) outlines our thoughts on using blockchain for foundation model governance to democratise AI and foster trust.

preprint: https://lnkd.in/gmRjmMVv (Accepted and to appear at IEEE Software)