Council Post: Why We Shouldn't Have AI Without Blockchain

Co-CEO at Fluree, the scalable semantic graph database backed by blockchain technology. As AI continues to permeate the online world, it opens up a Pandora's box of unintended consequences. That's because unleashing AI on the current version of the internet and letting it feed on potentially inauthentic data can lead to devastation. Our increasing reliance on machine learning opens the floodgates for hackers and other bad actors to manipulate data and exploit algorithms in dangerous ways. From entering counterfeit products into the supply chain to changing software source code to meddling with voter registration databases, data tampering is already being used as a powerful weapon.