Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined several ideas for leveraging artificial intelligence and personal large language models (LLMs) to improve democratic and decentralized governance. According to ChainCatcher, Buterin believes that while the concept of AI directly governing is dystopian, AI can assist in addressing issues like human attention and expertise deficits in governance structures such as DAOs.
He suggests mechanisms like personal governance agents, public dialogue participation agents, and AI-enhanced prediction markets to mitigate these challenges. Additionally, Buterin proposes incorporating technologies like secure multi-party computation, trusted execution environments (TEE), or encrypted circuits in decentralized decision-making scenarios involving confidential information. This would allow personal LLMs to participate in decision-making within a 'black box.'
Buterin also emphasizes the importance of using zero-knowledge proofs and multi-party privacy computation tools to enhance participant anonymity and content privacy protection.