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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2506-04236,
  title = "Spore in the Wild: Case Study on Spore.fun, a Real-World Experiment of Sovereign Agent Open-ended Evolution on Blockchain with TEEs",
  author = "Botao Amber Hu and Helena Rong",
  year = "2025",
  journal = "CoRR",
  url = "https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.04236",
  volume = "abs/2506.04236",
  doi = "10.48550/ARXIV.2506.04236",
}</pre><pre>
@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2505-09757,
  title = "Trustless Autonomy: Understanding Motivations, Benefits and Governance Dilemma in Self-Sovereign Decentralized {AI} Agents",
  author = "Botao Amber Hu and Yuhan Liu and Helena Rong",
  year = "2025",
  journal = "CoRR",
  url = "https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.09757",
  volume = "abs/2505.09757",
  doi = "10.48550/ARXIV.2505.09757",
}</pre><pre>
@misc{Hu2025Decentralized,
  title = "Is {{Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Governable}}?\ {{Towards Machine Sovereignty}} and {{Human Symbiosis}}",
  author = "Hu, Botao "Amber" and Rong, Helena and Tay, Janna",
  year = "2025",
  publisher = "SSRN",
  doi = "10.2139/ssrn.5110089",
}</pre></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3 col-md-pull-9 side-menu-col"><h2 class="side-menu-title text-uppercase"><a href="#">About Us</a></h2><ul class="side-menu"><li class="active mobile-menu-source"><a href="/people/">People</a><ul><li><a href="/people/faculty.html">Faculty</a></li><li><a href="/people/research.html">Research</a></li><li class="active"><a href="/people/students.html">Students</a></li><li><a href="/people/support.html">Professional Services</a></li><li><a href="/people/visitingprofessors.html">Visiting Professors</a></li><li><a href="/people/emeritusfaculty.html">Emeritus Faculty</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="/aboutus/vacancies/">Vacancies</a></li><li><a href="/aboutus/women-cs-oxford/index.html">Women in the department</a></li><li><a href="/aboutus/equality-diversity-inclusion/index.html">Equality, diversity and inclusion</a></li><li><a href="https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/cs/make-a-donation">Support Us</a></li><li><a href="/aboutus/cshistory.html">Our History</a></li><li><a href="/aboutus/contact.html">Contact Us</a></li></ul></div></div></div>[an error occurred while processing this directive]