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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…
Distributed Legal Infrastructure for a Trustworthy Agentic Web
Tomer Jordi Chaffer, Victor Jiawei Zhang, Sante Dino Facchini +6
The agentic web marks a structural transition from a human-centered information network to a digital environment populated by artificial intelligence (AI) agents that perceive, dec…
Sovereign Agents: Towards Infrastructural Sovereignty and Diffused Accountability in Decentralized AI
Botao Amber Hu, Helena Rong
AI agents deployed on decentralized infrastructures are beginning to exhibit properties that extend beyond autonomy toward what we describe as agentic sovereignty-the capacity of a…
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…
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,…
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…
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…