PANews March 5 News, according to CoinDesk, Davide Crapis, Head of AI at the Ethereum Foundation, stated that Ethereum’s goal is not to integrate AI at the computational level but to serve as a coordination and verification layer in 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 promoted by the crypto movement—decentralization, self-sovereignty, censorship resistance, and privacy—will be eroded.
Ethereum’s AI strategy includes two main directions: first, decentralized AI coordination, providing infrastructure for identity recognition, trust building, and payment exchanges for increasingly popular AI agents, enabling agents to discover each other, assess reputation, and route payments via standards like ERC-8004 through public registries; second, incorporating core principles such as privacy, openness, and censorship resistance into the AI domain, 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 an “AI brain,” it can help govern its operational environment.