Fisher: Blockchain ideas could address AI trust and compute distribution
Jordan Fisher · Ask These Questions Before Starting An AI Startup · Y Combinator · Oct 7, 2025 · at 38:19
Jordan Fisher, former CEO of Standard AI and an AI alignment researcher at Anthropic, discusses whether blockchain mechanisms could solve AI trust and distribution challenges.
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“But I do think You know, in this world where we need trust, yeah, like, those, that's the right set of ideas. We need ideas like that in others, right? Like, you know, something that is always touching on is like, you know, AI-powered audits. Can, like, two different AI companies audit each other? Like, how do we, like, get to places where we can build trust? If we do end up with some form of, like, universal basic income or basic compute, basic tokens, does that need to be mediated by a blockchain, like, so that it's not just at the behest of a central government? Like, yeah, I think those are, like, Reasonable questions that maybe I could get behind a blockchain on.”
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