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With the rapid rise of generative AI models capable of creating texts, pictures, and even videos virtually indistinguishable from reality, policymakers globally are on the back foot. Across the world, governments are scrambling for solutions that can bring some much-needed accountability to both creators and users of AI applications. While some, such as the European Union, have been relatively quick to pass regulations like the AI Act, others appear to have no plan. Worse yet, it’s not certain that regulations around AI can even be enforced properly in an increasingly globalized world. Yet another technology that debuted on the world stage 15 years ago with the release of Bitcoin is increasingly being considered a potential solution for creating AI accountability. Blockchain technology may be about to find its killer use case. An immutable evidence trail Like all new technologies that take the world by storm, the common theme in all of the problems linked to AI is accountability. If a deepfake of a politician admitting to a heinous crime goes viral and costs them the election, how do we discover who did it? Where an AI model developed by a trading house crashes a national economy and causes financial instability, how do we hold the developers accountable? Should AI be used to power an autonomous weapon that attacks a civilian center during a war? How do we discover who programmed it and hold them accountable? The first step is finding out who did what and when. As distributed tamper proof databases with time-stamped records of everything, blockchains are the ideal tool for gathering evidence, which in turn can be used to enforce regulations. While it’s always going to be challenging to stop a rogue terrorist group in the Afghan mountains from using AI to generate deepfakes to further their political…

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