Vitalik Keynote: Ethereum and AI: Synergies and Potential Applications l KBW2024

📅 Nov 13, 2024 Korea Blockchain Week 21 MIN 328 VIEWS 4 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS

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0:06Okay, Vitalik, how are you? Can you hear me?
0:12Can crowd, can you hear Vitalik?

Interviewer 0:06 ↗

Okay, Vitalik, how are you? Can you hear me?

Vitalik Buterin 0:09 ↗

Yes, I'm good. Can you guys hear me?

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APA

Buterin, V. (2024, November 13). Vitalik Keynote: Ethereum and AI: Synergies and Potential Applications l KBW2024 [Interview transcript]. Korea Blockchain Week. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2986388/

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Vitalik Buterin. "Vitalik Keynote: Ethereum and AI: Synergies and Potential Applications l KBW2024." Korea Blockchain Week, 13 Nov. 2024. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2986388/.

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  author       = {Vitalik Buterin},
  title        = {Vitalik Keynote: Ethereum and AI: Synergies and Potential Applications l KBW2024},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Korea Blockchain Week. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2024},
  month        = {nov},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2986388/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}

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Key Quotes (2)

“The big question is basically figuring out is this like that kind of situation or is there really something there in the intersection. So I wrote this post on crypto and AI back in January, and back in January I talked about one of the first things that I pointed to right is that there was this Venn diagram in my post. So basically in the Venn diagram, on the left side you have AI and then on the ”

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“One way to think about prediction markets as a building block is that they can make other mechanisms faster. They can be like the equivalent of distilling an AI. You take some existing mechanism and then you make some much faster thing that gets incentivized to do as good a job as possible of predicting the slower thing. So on Twitter, imagine you make a post and let's say the post is going to be ”

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About Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin, cofounder of Ethereum, has been active in public discussions and conferences over the past two months, focusing on the intersection of blockchain, cryptography, and artificial intelligence. At the Network State Conference 2026, he joined Balaji Srinivasan for a fireside chat where he said public key cryptography will continue, though he expects it to face security challenges requiring periodic parameter updates. He also stated that AI has accelerated Ethereum's development roadmap, suggesting that without AI, the "Lean" roadmap might have taken until 2040 or 2050 to complete. In a talk at OKX NOW in Singapore, Buterin argued that blockchain technology has not matured and that AI is both the biggest opportunity and risk for the space. He described a shift from "programmable assets" to "programmable data" using zero-knowledge proofs, and predicted AI would become the new user interface for blockchain transactions, potentially reducing certain security risks while introducing new ones. At ETHTaipei 2026, he presented a keynote titled "Blockchain is one tool, CROPS is the objective," defining CROPS as censorship and capture resistance, open source, privacy, and safety. He also detailed EIP-8288, a proposal for in-mempool recursive STARK aggregation, which he said would improve scalability, privacy, and post-quantum security by replacing individual signatures and proofs with a single aggregated proof per block. In a Shanghai speech, he encouraged developers to explore new cryptographic tools and applications, noting that Ethereum's roadmap now includes concrete EIPs for integrating STARKs more broadly.

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