Vitalik proposed the latest vision for the integration of Ethereum and AI, along with four short-term building directions

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin articulated his latest views on the integration of Ethereum and artificial intelligence. He pointed out that the ideal future of artificial intelligence should achieve two core goals: first, to enhance human freedom and empowerment, avoiding the replacement of humans by AI or falling into insurmountable power structures; second, to ensure system security, mitigating existential risks posed by superintelligence and chaotic scenarios resulting from imbalances in offense and defense.

Around this vision, he proposed four key short-term building directions and emphasized that Ethereum will play an important role in them:

1. Build technological 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.
2. Establish Ethereum as the economic coordination layer for AI-related interactions, supporting scenarios including API calls, employment and collaboration between autonomous robots, margin mechanisms, and potentially future on-chain dispute resolution systems and AI reputation frameworks.
3. Promote the realization of the cypherpunk vision of "self-verification," enabling users to interact directly with Ethereum applications through local models, autonomously generate and verify transactions, complete smart contract audits, and independently assess the trust models of decentralized applications.
4. Leverage artificial intelligence to expand the scale of human judgment and collaboration, activating complex mechanisms such as prediction markets, decentralized governance, and quadratic voting, to build a more efficient and inclusive market and governance ecosystem.

Vitalik concluded that the aforementioned directions reflect the idea of achieving decentralized collaboration and system resilience through technology, and combined with AI and cryptographic technology, they are expected to push social and economic designs that were previously limited by human cognitive and coordination capabilities towards reality.