Public Lecture | Trustless Autonomy? Governance Dilemmas of Decentralized AI Agents

11月27日，受北京大学国际法学院法律与创新项目（SLI）邀请，上海纽约大学助理教授Helena Rong将于我院举办主题为"Trustless Autonomy? Governance Dilemmas of Decentralized AI Agents"的公开讲座。欢迎感兴趣的师生参与！具体信息如下：

Dr. Helena Rong is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Business at NYU Shanghai, with an interdisciplinary focus on urban technology, collective intelligence, and digital governance. Her work examines how emerging technologies (blockchains, decentralized AI, urban IoT) can transform collective life and foster new forms of civic trust. She leads research on Trust Experience Design (TXD), intentional communities and digital nomadism, and the institutional challenges posed by the emerging agentic web. Across her projects, she explores how sociotechnical systems can enable more resilient, participatory, and imaginative modes of urban living. Previously, she has conducted research at MIT’s Real Estate Innovation Lab (co-authoring the book Value of Design: Creating Agency Through Data-Driven Insights, 2025) and at the MIT Senseable City Lab, working on autonomous urban systems (“roboat” waterborne vehicles for novel use cases). As a 2022–23 Technology and Public Purpose Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, she conducted research on decentralized trust-building frameworks and tech policy.