The growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to stun and captivate us with its advancements. New models and understanding of super-intelligence arise from the traditional halls of academia and corporate research but the exponential progress happens in open-source development as open access continues to attract the best ideas and talent.

The recent developments and AI democratisation leave us with many open questions:
Do self replicating and self extending AIs impose existential risks to humanity?
Or are they rather the dawn of a utopia where we gain a much deeper understanding of intelligence and the mind's inner workings?
How can we align AIs with human goals and keep them accountable?
How can we decide what is real and what isn't in a world of autonomous agents and machine generated content?

The answers to those questions won't come from the AI community alone as they require inter-disciplinary collaboration across various fields spanning the humanities, computer science and cryptography. For years the AI and crypto communities have been operating in silos as they were allegedly driven by opposing ideologies. We don't agree with those views but consider AI and cryptography as two sides of the same medal: you can't have one without the other.

At Inflection, we believe in the power of collective and open intelligence. Hence, we're excited to announce that we're co-hosting a hackathon in Paris, aiming to gather the most brilliant minds from the worlds of AI and cryptography to collaborate. Some powerful ideas we'd love to see experiments around:

• Enhance AI agent's economic capabilities through composable open open finance legos

• Democratise access and development by LoRA hacking or censorship-resistant embeddings publishing

• Enable marketplaces of agents and data sets represented as NFTs

• Cryptographic access control over AI agents and custom data sets

• Notarise and verify identities and content through cryptography, end-to-end secured

Our goal is to gather developers, cryptographers and AI experts who believe in the transformative potential of trustless AI systems integrated with crypto technologies. We are joined by some of the leading innovators in the space including Aragon, Ceramic, Gensyn, Llama Index, Modulus Labs, Ocean Protocol, Ora, Risc0, Seed Club Ventures, Spearbit, StabilityAI, Station F, Violet, CrunchDAO amongst others.

Co-organizers are Inflection, Nevermined, Valory, Algovera, Orbis Labs, Tenfold and AI3

We invite you to join us in pushing the boundaries of what's possible, exploring the intersections between AI and crypto and pioneering new ways to implement and secure these technologies.

Logistics

Where: Station F, Paris

When: 2 days and a night: July 18 - July 19

Who: anyone who's willing to learn

Sign up at augmenthack.xyz !

Onwards & Upwards,

Team Inflection