Either AI and crypto get joined together at the hip, or both die. Each is existentially critical for the other. 

Both sides are in denial about it, but crypto is a little closer to admitting it needs AI than the other way around.

This thing is a symbiotic like lichens*

* Though lichens involve 3 species not 2

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Links to the papers mentioned? Do you have a good reading list on this topic?

Not in denial at all, being prepared for it:

https://warpcast.com/cassie/0xd56eca

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Yep. Still working out the thesis. Write a series about it on my newsletter. Short version: cryptocurrencies/blockchains = cryptography + economics. The economics piece is not optional.

AI needs an economics not just a secrecy tech

"AI needs cryptography" is something I 100% agree with, in the same way that the internet wouldn't be nearly as useful without SSL/TLS, asymmetric key crypto etc.

On the other hand, not obvious to me that AI needs cryptocurrencies/blockchain -- is this what you're claiming and if so why?

I've been working on combining them via zero-knowledge proofs!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08674

Absolutely agree. Would you be willing to join us on our weekly Meteor Twitter Space to discuss it some time? We've had Stephen Wolfram in the past among others. You can check out what we've been doing at https:// this is meteor dot com where we've been trying to connect some of the dots