For years, people have been curious about the promise and challenges between crypto and AI, two major tech trends of the past decade. While the idea of combining them seems promising, the specifics of how they could work together have been somewhat limited.

I am a Finance and Tech enthusiast from India, currently Managing content and marketing growth at Cointopper. Open to brainstorm about Web3

AI as an interface to the game [high potential, but with risks]: AIs helping users to understand the crypto world around them, and to ensure that their behavior (ie. signed messages and transactions) matches their intentions and they do not get tricked or scammed.

AI as the rules of the game [tread very carefully]: blockchains, DAOs and similar mechanisms directly calling into AIs. Think eg. "AI judges"

AI as the objective of the game: designing blockchains, DAOs and similar mechanisms with the goal of constructing and maintaining an AI that could be used for other purposes, using the crypto bits either to better incentivize training or to prevent the AI from leaking private data or being misused.

Here are four major categories where crypto and AI could intersect shared by Vitalik:

AI as a player in a game [highest viability]: AIs participating in mechanisms where the ultimate source of the incentives comes from a protocol with human inputs.