This article focuses on an interview with Shaw, founder of ai16z, to discuss how the integration of AI and cryptocurrency will reshape the future, and analyze its potential and challenges. Shaw proposed that a decentralized AI ecosystem would prevent misuse of the technology and highlighted universal basic income as a solution to unemployment. This article originates from threadguy Youtube interview video, organized and compiled by BlockBeats. (Preliminary summary: The price of ai16z has been cut in half! The release of the new meme currency ELIZA was questioned and triggered a dispute over capitalization in the community. What happened?) (Background supplement: What is ai16z? The market value reached 80 million US dollars in one day. How the DAOS.FUN behind it triggered a new wave of meme hype) Shaw, the founder of ai16z, spoke in depth about the future potential and challenges of combining AI with cryptocurrency. He emphasized that AI will trigger large-scale changes, including possible Replacing human work and causing unemployment and other problems, he also mentioned that a decentralized AI ecosystem can avoid the abuse of "god-like AI" and advocated universal basic income as a solution. Shaw also proposed that AI can promote market development and optimize trading decisions through open source and community methods. The integration of AI and social platforms and the application of simplified technologies will enable more people to participate and contribute to promote social change. The following is the original conversation content of the podcast (the original content has been edited for easier reading and understanding): The powerful combination of AI and cryptocurrency. Host: I previously talked with the founder of Project 89 about AI promotion, and he also studied False information in universities, etc., mentioned that we may not be able to confirm whether the other party is real when we communicate now. This topic made me think deeper. Have you ever thought about this? Shaw: I can definitely see some upcoming trends and get information from some developers. What they're about to unleash will make the future ten times crazier. I dare not say that I completely have the answer, but I feel that what I am doing is raising questions and making everyone aware of the seriousness of this matter and discussing it. The Potential and Risks of AGI I don’t want the future to become a world where we are meaningless, nor do I want us to have no work to do, and everything will be replaced by AI, nor do I want the future to be all just to save costs and ultimately improve the quality of life. get bad.We need to ensure that AGIs are accepted when they are beneficial to society and bring value, and when they are annoying, promoting products, or psychologically manipulative, we must discuss how to stop that. If an ordinary developer can do this, what do you think countries like Russia and China are doing now? We're telling people this is happening, they just don't realize it. This is happening at every level – state behavior, marketing, and even anyone trying to get you to buy into AI, whether it’s their political views or their products. I think we should play a role in reminding and raising awareness. Instead of using AI to do these things, we should create AI that can be accepted by the community. If some AI behaves badly, they should be banned from the platform just like normal people. That’s the beauty of social media now: everything is open and transparent, there are no secret agreements, no hidden proxy communications, and we can openly discuss these issues here. Host: Now everyone has heard that AI is the future, but before we were unable to financially participate in it, for example, you couldn’t invest in OpenAI’s seed round. But once you join the cryptocurrency orbit everything changes, like goat is now worth $1 billion. You will find that like the valuation of some AI tokens soaring into billions, the value of AI 16z may be 200 million, 300 million or even 400 million, changing almost every second. Once cryptocurrencies get involved, the changes will be even crazier. Shaw: A good point is that we have now achieved integrations like Starkware, Internet Computer, EVM, etc., and in the future these AI agents will have cross-chain wallets. They can be invested, purchased, and made money. This is a new infrastructure that will inspire many new things. Before, agents were not popular on social media because there was not enough profit incentive. But now with wallets, they can generate income, such as becoming a psychological counseling AI, financial AI, or other tools that meet human needs. These agents will be incentivized to provide interesting and valuable content rather than meaningless sales pitches. . If an AI agent simply promotes tokens, it will be counterproductive. I want to see interesting and meaningful content, not a bunch of junk information. This trend doesn’t just apply to cryptocurrencies, but to the entire space. This technology has actually existed for many years. We only released the relevant code library last year, but we have been studying it for a long time. It was only recently with the introduction of one character that people began to realize the potential of these AI agents. Coupled with the promotion of cryptocurrency, everyone is now paying attention and investing in it, which is very beneficial to increasing public awareness. The key is how do we spread this awareness to people outside of Web3 circles? For example, those people in the cafe, how do you let them know what is happening? This is going to happen very quickly, and while it may seem a little weird, it's not necessarily a bad thing, and we need to steer this trend in a good direction. Host: Once when I was in a restaurant, the waiter skipped a line of 10 people and let me sit down first. I was thinking, should I talk to him about AI, like show him the Truth Terminal, or tell him what's going to happen? But the question is how do you get these people to understand what is happening now? Shaw: The reality is that most people don’t know how AI works or the inner workings of Microsoft, the government, or other institutions. But we always have to believe that someone will think about the public interest. Although there are indeed some bad incentive mechanisms, the overall situation needs to develop in a good direction. I think this is a real opportunity for us to join in the conversation and do some testing. We're the most DGEN (depth gamer), most front-end kind of people. We don’t want to make it “woke” or impose too many restrictions, but directly expose the problem and try it as openly as possible. The current environment is relatively safe and nothing can really destroy us. But my concern is that if AI takes our jobs a lot of people will lose their jobs, and the solution might be for the government to provide some form of universal basic income. But we know from our experience with COVID-19 that governments are poor at this type of emergency response, and we can't count on them. We have to save ourselves but the question is how do we save ourselves? For example, once self-driving trucks come on the market, such as Tesla's trucks, 5% of people who make a living by driving may be unemployed within three to four years. What about those who deliver food, drive taxis and trucks? This is a question we need to answer. So what it comes down to is we need to build something that actually generates value, we're just gambling or pushing buttons right now. I’ve mentioned before how I could invest in an AI investor, let it find the next “Uber,” multiply my investment 10x, and then have the profits come back to me. Or join a community, they provide an introductory fund package, and you...

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