PANews February 10 News, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin elaborated on his latest views regarding the integration of Ethereum and artificial intelligence. He pointed out that the ideal future of AI should achieve two core goals: first, to enhance human freedom and empowerment, avoiding scenarios where humans are replaced by AI or trapped in insurmountable power structures; second, to ensure system security, mitigating existential risks posed by superintelligence and preventing chaos caused by imbalanced attack and defense.
Centered around this vision, he proposed four key short-term development directions and emphasized that Ethereum will play an important role in them:
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Building technical tools that support trustless and private interactions, including local large language models, zero-knowledge proof-based API payments, cryptography-driven privacy enhancement solutions, and client-side verification mechanisms for various proofs and certifications.
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Developing Ethereum into an economic coordination layer for AI-related interactions, supporting scenarios such as API calls, autonomous robot employment and collaboration, margin mechanisms, and potentially on-chain dispute resolution systems and AI reputation frameworks in the future.
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Promoting the realization of the crypto-punk “autonomous verification” vision, enabling users to interact directly with Ethereum applications through local models, autonomously generate and verify transactions, conduct smart contract audits, and independently evaluate the trust models of decentralized applications.
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Leveraging artificial intelligence to expand the scale of human judgment and collaboration, activating complex mechanisms like prediction markets, decentralized governance, and quadratic voting, to build more efficient and inclusive market and governance ecosystems.
Vitalik summarized that the above directions embody the idea of achieving decentralized collaboration and system resilience through technology. Combining AI and cryptography is expected to push social and economic designs, previously limited by human cognition and coordination capabilities, toward realization.
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