Blockchain and AI: Building Provenance for Autonomous Systems

Data lineage

Record verifiable references to datasets, transformations, consent states or origin attestations without necessarily placing raw data on-chain.

Agent identity

Give autonomous software agents persistent identifiers, permissions and auditable transaction authority.

Output provenance

Anchor hashes or signed records of important AI-generated outputs so later verification is possible.

Rights and access

Use programmable logic for licences, usage rights, data access and machine-readable policy enforcement.

Boundaries

Blockchain does not make an AI output true. It can strengthen evidence about origin, state and authorised actions, but model quality and factual accuracy remain separate problems.