EWADA researchers organise a workshop on decentralisation

Drs Naman Goel and Rui Zhao and Jesse Wright co-led the Workshop on Human-Centric Agentic Web, co-located with the Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) conference.

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.