thanks for writing from an academic perspective on these 2 rapidly growing global disrupting technologies
a growing number of readers on Steem are can already see the inescapable merger of ai and crytographic ledger technology, for example: have you invested or looking into tao and it's first blockchain consensus implementation called Agoras? if you have then i'm sure you can see this will be truly fascinating to see what we can do in the coming decade
btw. i'm from the ComedyOpenMic community...we believe to mainstream Steem for wide adoption, we need to mainstream comedy
original humor is a natural draw to win over and keep members from the likes corporate owned social media as well as the likes largest subreddit s/funny with 50million members (one of our sub-goals is to use humor to build retention into the blockchain and to bring in 500,000 new comedy enthusiasm on board in the next 12+ months ~ about 1% of subreddit funny).......well to scale this effort I was searching for dev tools to help our community witness account (we have C++ and python dev in our community) to automate our competitions and then some, and somehow it landed me here, glad i found your post