Can blockchain supply the guardrails to keep AI on course?

Artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain are emerging digital technologies that have captured the public imagination but also raised serious concerns.

So it bears asking: Can AI and blockchain be integrated in a way that benefits humanity?

There are reasons to think so. As far back as 2016, Vitalik Buterin wrote that both the crypto economics and AI safety communities were “trying to tackle what is fundamentally the same problem” of how to regulate complex and smart systems with…