The following reflects the views of L2BEAT’s governance team, composed of @krst and @Sinkas. It’s based on their combined research, fact-checking, and ideation.
While this proposal is more of an idea than a fully developed plan, we appreciate the initiative to explore how AI could be more systematically integrated into the Arbitrum ecosystem and supported by the DAO. We understand where the need for agility comes from, and even though we support creating an agile team, we need to ensure that we are not just throwing money chasing rabbits.
We do not see a plan for how this initiative will move from an idea to an executable strategy. Funding a team is a step, but the first step should be a high-level plan of what we want to achieve. Although we could discuss KPIs and details for months, this goes against the very spirit of the proposal. In our mind, a better approach to ensuring that we will not be spending money without seeing any meaningful impact is to have clear-set red flags that urge us to wind down the initiative if needed. In that way, even if we are to fund a team without any specific goal ahead of time, and even if there are no KPIs set given the ever-changing landscape of AI x Blockchain, we will have some concrete signal that things aren’t working, and we can pull the plug.