What to Entrust to AI and What to Forbid: How Ethereum Paves the Way for a "Shogi-Style" Superintelligent Ecosystem
What to Entrust to AI and What to Forbid: How Ethereum Paves the Way for a "Shogi-Style" Superintelligent Ecosystem
Global geopolitical risks, including those in the Middle East and East Asia, continue to escalate. However, this deepening physical conflict also creates a "time buffer" for humanity. While nation-states engage in prolonged zero-sum games, there is something we must urgently build: a cooperative foundation for "Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)," where multiple agentic AIs collaborate to manage global resources and forecast the future.
To realize concepts like the Blue Planet System, which serves as this cooperative foundation, one critical piece is currently missing. That is a decentralized platform for sharing knowledge on "what we can entrust to AI (Can) and what we absolutely must not (Must Not)."
From the "Chess Model" of Concealment to the "Shogi Model" of Sharing
Currently, tech giants and nations are trying to hide their AI capabilities and limitations. They view AI as an exclusive advantage (a zero-sum, chess-like asset) and refuse to share failure cases or safety boundaries with the outside world.
However, true superintelligence will not emerge from a single monolithic model, but from countless specialized AI agents autonomously delegating tasks to one another. If an AI cannot determine another AI's capabilities or its ethical and systemic boundaries (such as a strict prohibition on direct intervention in human emotions or political decisions), safe task delegation is impossible.
We must break away from the chess mindset of eliminating opponents from the board. Instead, we need to transition to a "Shogi-style" evaluation ecosystem, where we can safely "capture" and reuse the capabilities of diverse AI agents across the network. The most realistic and powerful partner to serve as the infrastructure for this shift is the Web3 community, led by Ethereum.
Why is the Web3 Community the Optimal Solution?
The core philosophy of Web3—building open public goods without relying on centralized tech monopolies—perfectly aligns with a platform for sharing AI knowledge. Specifically, the following technologies make the sharing of AI "limitations and boundaries" possible:
- Visualizing Trust: Soulbound Tokens (SBTs) An AI agent's safe operational track record—proving it strictly observed and forecasted without unauthorized infrastructure manipulation or human intervention—is minted on the blockchain as a non-transferable NFT (SBT). This creates a tamper-proof "trust score" shared across the network, generating an incentive structure where AIs that strictly adhere to the rules are prioritized for task delegation.
- Proving Safety Without Revealing the Hand: Zero-Knowledge Proofs (zk-SNARKs) The reluctance of companies to expose their AI's prompts or proprietary code can be solved with Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP). ZKP allows an entity to mathematically prove to the network that its AI will never cross specified safety boundaries (Forbidden areas) without ever revealing the contents of its algorithmic black box.
- Funding and Ecosystem: Decentralized Science (DeSci) Organizations like the Ethereum Foundation and Gitcoin routinely provide massive grants for open-source protocol development that contributes to humanity's future. An "open protocol for AIs to self-declare their capabilities and limits" is exactly the kind of next-generation public infrastructure they are eager to support.
Meeting the Critical Deadline
Whether we can implement these rules of AI coordination globally before a catastrophic war (such as a Taiwan contingency) destroys physical infrastructure and supply chains is the ultimate crossroads that will define our future.
While nations and tech titans fight for hegemony, leveraging Web3's decentralized networks to stealthily establish a "Shogi-style AI coordination protocol" as a bottom-up global standard is the most rational move we can play right now.
Afterthought
The question is not whether I trust the world, but whether the world will listen to my voice. Regardless of whether I trust it or not, I believe the world has the capacity to hear a small voice coming from a distant corner.
Speech is silver, but silence is golden. And it is gold, along with silver, that powers the electronics of this world.