Hoskinson’s argument goes beyond computing costs, as he says blockchains could also provide shared rules for AI alignment and governance.

Charles Hoskinson says the cryptocurrency industry is about to do to artificial intelligence what it once did to cryptography, and he thinks the spending spree behind today’s AI data centers is heading for a bust.

In the September 16 episode of the Deeptech Insights podcast, the Cardano founder argued that blockchains could give AI payment rails, data ownership, provenance, and distributed computing as the infrastructure boom runs into economic limits.

Why Hoskinson Thinks Crypto Eats AI

Hoskinson said spending 10 times more on data…