Co-Founder & Executive Director @AO_Commons | probably reading sci-fi 🪐
London, England
Joined August 2013
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Super excited to finally unveil the new research initiative I'm co-founding with @anke_g_liu with support from @joshuaztan and @metagov_project.
If you're building or researching in this space, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Exciting things to come!
More about what @anke_g_liu and I are building @AO_Commons
6/ The multi-agent ecosystem is growing, but research, tools, and insights remain fragmented👇
@AO_Commons connects researchers, builders, and institutions through shared infrastructure, deployment-grounded research, and collaboration to advance safe, effective and reliable autonomous organizations.
🧵 of my slides following @samccarthy27 at the London AO Summit hosted by @AO_Commons and @ARIA_research
1/ Why put organizations as the focus of an AI research agenda?
A slide from my recent talk at the London AO Summit hosted by @AO_Commons and @ARIA_research (short 🧵)
4/ Organizations are an open design space with established epistemics
We already have many effective ways for studying orgs, and at a high-level, defining what makes a “good” one, which can be useful for a space that is so new and opaque
By studying agent-run orgs we can leverage existing tools to enable the broad experimentation and iteration necessary for creating a better shared understanding of these systems
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5/ Autonomous organizations are already happening!
From @andonlabs vending machines to the AI Village @aidigest_, AI agents are beginning to move from tools used by organizations to intelligent actors within them: making decisions, coordinating with humans and other agents, transacting, and performing work with increasing degrees of autonomy.
Meanwhile, the technical rails for building AOs are arriving much faster than our ability to understand and govern them
As these autonomous agentic systems gain authority over increasing amounts of real-world resources, there's a real urgency to get ahead of this!
That's the mission at @AO_Commons
Feel free to reach out if you're working on something similar
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Sam McCarthy retweeted
What happens when AI learns to organise itself?
Last Friday, I spoke at the Autonomous Organisation (AO) Summit in London, co-hosted by @AO_Commons and @ARIA_research’s Scaling Trust programme.
At @GenReasoning, we built Avalon, where AI agents learn to organise and collaborate autonomously. I believe collective intelligence is the next frontier of AI.
But greater autonomy raises a bigger question: How do humans stay in control? And more fundamentally, who decides what's worth pursuing?
To me, AI isn’t just a technical challenge, but a question of human identity.
Thanks to @ObadiaAlex, @anke_g_liu, @samccarthy27 and the team for bringing together thoughtful minds.
Sam McCarthy retweeted
Had a great time speaking at the London AO Summit on Friday 🙏
Thank you @joshuaztan, @samccarthy27 & @anke_g_liu of @AO_Commons and @ObadiaAlex of @ARIA_research for having me.
ALT The ARIA logo, "Advanced Research + Invention Agency", in black on a cream wall, with a potted palm in the corner.
ALT David Dao, in a rust-coloured jacket, speaks with a microphone to an audience at the London AO Summit. Two screens show his slide "Good governance is a time and resource problem", with ghostly figures around a council table under a clock.
Sam McCarthy retweeted
Yes! Excited to be part of this effort, there is so much work yet to be done on autonomous organizations
Narrative for AOs loading…
Good timing to see this while sat @ARIA_research x @AO_Commons summit on autonomous orgs, agent collectives, incentive design + safety
Missing on agenda (maybe scene too early but lesson from DAOs) is narrative; how we create conditions for social acceptance of this kind of org
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The lineup keeps growing!
More London AO Summit speakers!
+ @ChengxiTaylor of @GenReasoning on the first autonomous company model
+ @yalidux on safe cooperative AI
+ @brulepri on systemic risk in AI collectives
Nov 5–6, hosted by AO Commons and @ARIA_research Apply to attend: luma.com/j1lmnrxk
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Sam McCarthy retweeted
More London AO Summit speakers!
+ @ChengxiTaylor of @GenReasoning on the first autonomous company model
+ @yalidux on safe cooperative AI
+ @brulepri on systemic risk in AI collectives
Nov 5–6, hosted by AO Commons and @ARIA_research Apply to attend: luma.com/j1lmnrxk
AO Commons + ARIA just added a bunch of new speakers to the London AO Summit lineup. Come share your thoughts on the future of autonomous organizations!
The London AO Summit lineup just got bigger 🧵
Speakers from @GoogleDeepMind, @BritishProgress, @ARIA_research, @nyushanghai, @protocollabs on the law, security, economics and governance of autonomous organizations.
Nov 5–6, co-hosted with ARIA's Scaling Trust programme 🌟
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Sam McCarthy retweeted
Looking forward to speaking in this event! Learned a lot at the previous iteration too
Following the excellent Stanford Autonomous Organizations Summit a few months ago, Scaling Trust is co-hosting a follow-up event with AO Commons -- the London AO Summit -- on Nov 5th and 6th. Join us!
aocommons.org/london-ao-summ…
So excited to announce our upcoming event with @ARIA_research
Anyone working at the intersection of multi-agent automation, coordination, governance, and organizational design - come join us to explore this emerging field!
Big things coming soon for autonomous organizations..
Following the excellent Stanford Autonomous Organizations Summit a few months ago, Scaling Trust is co-hosting a follow-up event with AO Commons -- the London AO Summit -- on Nov 5th and 6th. Join us!
aocommons.org/london-ao-summ…
Sam McCarthy retweeted
Our CEO Adam Miller and @samccarthy27 of @DAOstar_One on what comes after one-token-one-vote, and on companies run entirely by AI agents. xitter.gq/JustDAOItPod/status/21…
Are DAOs dead?
@samccarthy27 wrote "Farewell to DAOs," one of the most talked-about DAO essays this year.
His actual take: DAOs are inevitable. What has to go is the one-size-fits-all model.
New episode of Just DAO It! 🧵👇