AIBC World's AI & Blockchain Conference brought together a sharp group of practitioners and founders. I joined a panel with Igor Bershadsky, Jawad Ashraf, and Janet Adams, moderated by Olga Yaroshevsky, on how AI and blockchain intersect in regulated industries — and where the intersection is hype versus where it is actually useful.
The Real Overlap
My position on the AI-blockchain combination: the useful overlap is narrow but real. Audit trails are the strongest case. A compliance-native AI system that logs every decision in an immutable ledger gives regulators something they can actually interrogate. That is valuable. Most of the other proposed intersections — tokenised AI outputs, decentralised model training — are solutions looking for problems that the industry has not actually articulated yet.