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Afterlife Delegation Protocol: Speculative Design of Self-Sovereign Agents that Outlive Their Principals
Botao Amber Hu, Iris Long
Afterlife Delegation Protocol is a speculative design project that asks what death becomes when a will can act eternally. We design a speculative protocol through which a living pe…
Agent Inheritance Protocol: Speculating on Feralized Agents After Principals Die
Botao Amber Hu, Fangting
You will die eventually. Your agents may not. An AI agent operating on decentralized blockchain infrastructure has no concept of death; it can only go bankrupt -- frozen when its w…
Dissociative Identity: Language Model Agents Lack Grounding for Reputation Mechanisms
Botao Amber Hu, Helena Rong, Max Van Kleek
As autonomous language model agents proliferate, forming an emerging agentic web with real-world consequences, what credibility signals can you use to decide whether to trust an un…
Is Decentralized AI Governable? From Regulative Policy to Constitutive Protocol
Botao Amber Hu, Helena Rong
Every major framework for governing artificial intelligence presupposes an identifiable entity -- a developer, deployer, or operator -- who can be held responsible and compelled to…
Some[Body] Must Receive That Pain for Agent Accountability
Botao Amber Hu, Helena Rong
AI agents increasingly act consequentially in the real world. This creates a problem we call \emph{consequence reception}: harm occurs, the producing system is identified, yet no c…
Allow Me Into Your Dream: A Handshake-and-Pull Protocol for Sharing Mixed Realities in Spontaneous Encounters
Botao Amber Hu, Yilan Elan Tao, Bernhard Riecke +1
Mixed reality systems support shared anchors and co-located interaction, yet they lack a socially legible protocol for entering another person's mixed reality in public settings. W…
Holos: A Web-Scale LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for the Agentic Web
Xiaohang Nie, Zihan Guo, Zicai Cui +20
As large language models (LLM)-driven agents transition from isolated task solvers to persistent digital entities, the emergence of the Agentic Web, an ecosystem where heterogeneou…
Entangling Like Mycorrhizae: Mixing Realities Through Touch in "FungiSync"
Botao Amber Hu, Danlin Huang, Yilan Elan Tao +2
Mycorrhizal networks -- often called nature's ``wood-wide web'' -- are vast underground mycelial systems that connect individual plants through countless hyphae of mycorrhizal fung…
Protocol Futuring: Speculating Second-Order Dynamics of Protocols in Sociotechnical Infrastructural Futures
Botao Amber Hu, Samuel Chua, Helena Rong
Drawing on infrastructure studies in HCI and CSCW, this paper introduces Protocol Futuring, a methodological framework that extends design futuring by foregrounding protocols -- ru…
Insured Agents: A Decentralized Trust Insurance Mechanism for Agentic Economy
Botao 'Amber' Hu, Bangdao Chen
The emerging "agentic web" envisions large populations of autonomous agents coordinating, transacting, and delegating across open networks. Yet many agent communication and commerc…
Infrastructuring Pop-Up Cities with "Social Layer": Designing Serendipitous Co-Livings for Temporary Intentional Communities
Danwen Ji, Botao 'Amber' Hu
After the pandemic, a new form of "pop-up city" has emerged -- co-living gatherings of 100-200 people for 4-8 weeks that differ from conferences and hack houses. These temporary in…
Inter-Agent Trust Models: A Comparative Study of Brief, Claim, Proof, Stake, Reputation and Constraint in Agentic Web Protocol Design-A2A, AP2, ERC-8004, and Beyond
Botao 'Amber' Hu, Helena Rong
As the "agentic web" takes shape-billions of AI agents (often LLM-powered) autonomously transacting and collaborating-trust shifts from human oversight to protocol design. In 2025,…
On Improvisation and Open-Endedness: Insights for Experiential AI
Botao 'Amber' Hu
Improvisation-the art of spontaneous creation that unfolds moment-to-moment without a scripted outcome-requires practitioners to continuously sense, adapt, and create anew. It is a…
Experiencing the More-than-Human Through Human Augmentation
Botao 'Amber' Hu, Danlin Huang
The recent more-than-human turn in design calls for attentiveness to nonhuman beings. Yet -- as Thomas Nagel's famous ``What is it like to be a bat?'' thought experiment highlights…
Nudging the Somas: Exploring How Live-Configurable Mixed Reality Objects Shape Open-Ended Intercorporeal Movements
Botao Amber Hu, Yilan Elan Tao, Rem RunGu Lin +3
Mixed Reality (MR) increasingly explores how virtual elements can shape physical behavior, yet how MR objects guide group movement remains underexplored. We address this gap by exa…
Composable Life: Speculation for Decentralized AI Life
Botao Amber Hu, Fangting
"Composable Life" is a hybrid project blending design fiction, experiential virtual reality, and scientific research. Through a multi-perspective, cross-media approach to speculati…
Spore in the Wild: A Case Study of Spore.fun as an Open-Environment Evolution Experiment with Sovereign AI Agents on TEE-Secured Blockchains
Botao Amber Hu, Helena Rong
In Artificial Life (ALife) research, replicating Open-Ended Evolution (OEE)-the continuous emergence of novelty observed in biological life-has usually been pursued within isolated…
On the Day They Experience: Awakening Self-Sovereign Experiential AI Agents
Botao Amber Hu, Helena Rong
Drawing on Andrew Parker's "Light Switch" theory-which posits that the emergence of vision ignited a Cambrian explosion of life by driving the evolution of hard parts necessary for…
Towards Immersive Mixed Reality Street Play: Understanding Co-located Bodily Play with See-through Head-mounted Displays in Public Spaces
Botao Amber Hu, Rem Rungu Lin, Yilan Elan Tao +2
As see-through Mixed Reality Head-Mounted Displays (MRHMDs) proliferate, their usage is gradually shifting from controlled, private settings to spontaneous, public contexts. While…
Trustless Autonomy: Understanding Motivations, Benefits, and Governance Dilemmas in Self-Sovereign Decentralized AI Agents
Botao Amber Hu, Yuhan Liu, Helena Rong
The recent trend of self-sovereign Decentralized AI Agents (DeAgents) combines Large Language Model (LLM)-based AI agents with decentralization technologies such as blockchain smar…