Ethereum World's Fair @ Devconnect

AI and Decentralized Justice
2025-11-17 , World's Fair Stage

We will discuss possible interactions between AI and decentralized dispute resolution systems, such as Kleros. In contrast to approachs that enshrine a single AI "judge" to resolve disputes, we explore a model where multiple AI agents compete with each other in a crypto-economic game to produce resolutions to disputes, where they are incentivized to align with humans. Additionally, we consider how AI can be used by parties to disputes to prepare the documents and arguments they submit. This can widen the types of disputes that are compatible with open, crowdsourced dispute resolution, as these AI tools can remove confidential information before documents are sent to the crowd. Finally, we discuss various experiments we have conducted on the participation of AI agents in decentralized justice protocols.

William George has a PhD in mathematics from the University of Toronto. His thesis was on
number theory problems related to elliptic curve cryptography. He has subsequently studied applications of blockchains in various contexts. William is currently the research lead for the Kleros Cooperative, exploring crypto-economic problems relevant for blockchain-based, crowdsourced dispute resolution.