Adi Ben-Ari on AI and blockchain, for The Investment Association

When AI Meets Blockchain: Building the Rails for Programmable Finance

Adi Ben-Ari, Founder and CEO of Applied Blockchain, joins Lawrence Baker on IA Talks AI, the podcast from The Investment Association, for a conversation about what happens where tokenisation and AI meet.

The part that matters most here: what regulated institutions need before they can use public blockchain infrastructure safely. Tokenisation only delivers its full value once the infrastructure around it is connected rather than sitting asset by asset, and connected infrastructure on a public chain is exactly where confidentiality stops being a nice-to-have. Adi and Lawrence also cover how AI is changing the way software gets built, the difference between using an LLM directly and using one to build deterministic tools, and whether agents could eventually recommend and execute actions across digital markets, which raises the same question again: what can an agent be allowed to see?

Listen to the full episode above, or on The Investment Association's IA Talks AI hub where the rest of the series lives, or watch it on YouTube.