Welcome to Web 3 with A6 and Z, a show about building the next generation of the internet from the team at A6 and Z crypto that includes me, your Sonal Choxi.

Today's all new episode covers the convergence of two important top of mind

trends, AI, artificial intelligence, and crypto.

This has major implications for how we all live our lives every day, so this episode

is for anyone just curious about or already building in the space. Our special guest today

are Dan Buney, Stanford professor and senior Research Advisor at A6 and C crypto.

He's a photographer who's been working on blockchains for over a decade,

and the topics have a strong intersection between cryptography, computer security, and machine learning, all of which are his areas of expertise.

And then we also have Ali Yaya, general partner at A6 and Z-Crypta, who also worked at Google previously,

where he not only worked on a distributed system for robotics,

more specifically a sort of collective reinforcement learning which involved training a single

neural network that contributed to the actions of an entire fleet of robots, but also worked on Google Brain,

where he was one of the core contributors to the machine learning library

Tensor Flow. And actually, Dan and Ali go back since Ali was an undergrad

and master student at Stanford.

So this conversation is really more of a hallway jam between them

that I asked to join.

And we cover everything from deep fakes and bots

to proof of humanity in a world of AI and much, much more.

The first half is all about how AI could benefit from crypto and the second half on how

crypto could benefit from AI.

And the thread throughout is the tension between centralization

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