Ethereum Foundation: Ethereum's AI strategic goal is to become the coordination and verification layer of the AI world

According to CoinDesk, Davide Crapis, head of AI at the Ethereum Foundation, stated that Ethereum's goal is not to integrate with AI at the computational level, but to serve as a coordination and validation layer for the AI world. He pointed out that as more digital activities are handled by AI systems, if these systems are controlled by centralized entities, the values advocated by the crypto movement—such as decentralization, self-sovereignty, anti-censorship, and privacy—will be eroded.

Ethereum's AI strategy includes two main directions: first, decentralized AI coordination, which provides infrastructure for identity verification, trust establishment, and payment exchange for increasingly prevalent AI agents, allowing agents to discover each other, assess reputations, and route payments through public registries via standards like ERC-8004; second, introducing core principles such as privacy, openness, and anti-censorship into the AI field, promoting more AI processing to occur locally on user devices, allowing users to retain control over their data and identities.

Crapis emphasized that in a future where AI can impersonate humans, cryptographic keys will become even more important. Even if Ethereum does not provide the "brain" of AI, it can help govern its operating environment.