If I’m the AI company why would I let you do that, when I could just do it myself and get all of the money?

Regulation. If it got proven to the point that it was scaled out en mass, it would get hit hard and fast.

	▲	monkpit an hour ago \| parent [-]
		??? Then why would any AI company exist when they could just use their money to buy tokens from another AI company and make money for zero effort? There would be no incentive to be a provider. Not to mention inflation would grow to match or outpace the rate you could earn on these guaranteed AI gains.