About

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have ushered in a new era of intelligent agent technologies. These agents, built on top of powerful foundation models, are showing promising performance in long-horizon tasks, collaborating with humans and other agents, and acting autonomously across digital environments.

This workshop aims to explore the emerging infrastructure required to support safe, user-centric, and decentralised AI agents. LLM-based agents are poised to operate openly and widely across the internet, potentially interacting with other agents and humans across jurisdictions, platforms, trust boundaries and use cases — introducing novel challenges and research questions.

By bringing together researchers and industry practitioners from multi-agent systems, machine learning, systems engineering, security, HCI, and AI ethics, the workshop seeks to chart a path toward responsible infrastructure for next-generation AI agents.

The workshop is co-located with the Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) conference. Registration gives access to the entire (four day) conference. Check out the conference program!

For any questions related to the workshop, please contact naman.goel [at] cs.ox.ac.uk

Confirmed Speakers

Ramesh Raskar

Prof Ramesh Raskar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and NANDA Project

Weinan Zhang

Prof Weinan Zhang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University and SII

Serge Vasylechko

Dr Serge Vasylechko

Harvard Medical School AI and NANDA Project

Jesse Wright

Jesse Wright

University of Oxford and Solid Project





More speakers to be confirmed soon!

Programme (TBD)

All times local (British Time)

Organisers

Organising Committee

Panayiotis Danassis

Panayiotis Danassis

University of Southampton

Naman Goel

Naman Goel

University of Oxford and Alan Turing Institute

Jesse Wright

Jesse Wright

University of Oxford and Open Data Institute

An Zhang

An Zhang

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Steering Committee

Nigel Shadbolt

Nigel Shadbolt

Jesus College, University of Oxford and Open Data Institute

Jun Zhao

Jun Zhao

University of Oxford

Rui Zhao

Rui Zhao

University of Oxford

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Oxford Martin School and Oxford Martin Programme on Ethical Web and Data Architectures in the Age of AI (EWADA) for making this workshop possible.

Ethical Web and Data Architectures in the Age of AI