Balaji Srinivasan on Crypto as an AI Accelerant

AI is great at making things up (and very quickly, in large quantities). Crypto excels at verifying what's real. How can the two technologies complement one another? Former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan believes crypto can be an accelerant to AI development and adoption in finance, employment, government, and more by providing "proof of human" verification through open blockchain and open backends that can be indexed. Along the way, he says, this pairing of technologies can create jobs, mitigate AI's damage to the public web (in the form of excess spam and corrupted training data), and help democratize disciplines such as science and journalism.
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