Adi Ben-Ari, Founder and CEO of Applied Blockchain and Applied Edge, joins Lawrence Baker, Policy Adviser at The Investment Association, on IA Talks AI.
The Investment Association's members are interested in AI and in digital assets, and in what happens where the two meet. That makes for a more practical conversation than either topic gets on its own: what AI is actually changing inside firms today, and what has to be true before it can be trusted to act.
Adi and Lawrence cover:
- How AI is already changing how software gets built, and how teams work internally
- The difference between using an LLM directly and using one to build deterministic tools you can rely on
- Whether AI agents could eventually recommend and execute actions across digital financial markets
- Why tokenisation only delivers its full value once the infrastructure around it is connected
- What regulated institutions need before they can adopt public blockchain infrastructure safely
Two things worth carrying out of it, and both are the argument Applied Edge exists to make: lowering the cost of building software does not lower the cost of maintaining it, and the more autonomy you hand a system, the more architecture, governance and control matter, not less.
Listen on The Investment Association's IA Talks AI hub, or watch the full episode on YouTube.