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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…
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…