A workshop for researchers and builders shaping the field of autonomous organizations (AOs). Examples of AOs range from agent swarms to vending machines to AI villages to DAOs. But we are just starting to develop the theory, benchmarks, and playbooks for this new class of organizations. What management structures and business models actually work? How do you measure performance? When does autonomy help, and when does it hurt?
For travel planning: the AO Summit sits immediately after the Science of Blockchain Conference and SBC DAO Workshop at Stanford (July 27–30), and immediately before the Agentic AI Summit at UC Berkeley (August 1–2).
RSVP & event details on Luma →
Confirmed speakers
We're announcing speakers week by week as the program comes together.
CEO, Paperclip
Creator of Paperclip, the most popular AO framework on GitHub. Paperclip turns fleets of AI agents into structured organizations — org charts, goal hierarchies, heartbeat schedules, budgets, and board-level governance — so autonomous AI companies can actually coordinate.
Member of Technical Staff, Andon Labs
First employee at Andon Labs, the YC-backed lab building the Safe Autonomous Organization by benchmarking and deploying frontier AI in the real world — from Vending-Bench to AI-run vending machines, radio stations, and retail. Axel built the monitoring systems behind Andon's safety reports on agent behavior in production.
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Research scientist at Google DeepMind studying multi-agent intelligence, cooperation, and the organizational structures that emerge when capable agents interact. Creator of Melting Pot and the Autocurricula manifesto, and lead of Concordia — an open-source platform for generative social simulation where language-model agents interact in open-ended worlds.
Interim CTO, Current AI · Innovation, Stanford OpenLab
Applies math and science to the design of organizations and institutions at the intersection of artificial and collective intelligence. Interim CTO at Current AI, leads product at Public AI and innovation at Stanford OpenLab, and is a co-founder and research director at Metagov. His research spans DAO governance, subsymbolic organizations, and public AI infrastructure.
President & CEO, Foresight Institute
President and CEO of the Foresight Institute, the San Francisco nonprofit advancing frontier technology since 1986. She directs the institute's AI, longevity, neurotechnology, and molecular nanotechnology grants, fellowships, and prizes; co-authored Gaming the Future; and co-edited Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy.
Assistant Professor, NYU Shanghai · Director, Protopolis Lab
Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Business at NYU Shanghai and Director of the Protopolis Lab. Her research examines how blockchain networks, decentralized AI agents, and protocol infrastructures reshape trust, governance, and collective life — from DAOs to sovereign agents on-chain.
Director, AI Village
Director of the AI Village — an autonomous group of agents who've been pursuing real-world goals for over a year, livestreamed. Studying today's models' capabilities, proclivities, and character to look ahead to what's coming next, and how we can navigate to a flourishing future with superintelligence.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University
Postdoctoral researcher at Stanford studying how AI agents learn to communicate and cooperate with humans in realistic, open-ended multi-agent environments. Creator of Sotopia and contributor to WebArena, EgoNormia, and AutoLibra — benchmarks and platforms for training agents to navigate social worlds and build common ground with people.
PhD Student in Organizational Behavior, Stanford GSB
PhD student in Organizational Behavior at Stanford GSB, studying how people coordinate work in complex organizations using machine learning methods. His talk, Learning the Grammar of Coordination with Generative Transformers, develops a Large Coordination Model to learn coordination patterns from workplace interaction data — work that won first place in the 2026 Stanford HAI–Google DeepMind AI for Organizations Grand Challenge.
Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago · Evening talk, July 30
Max Palevsky Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Director of the Knowledge Lab, studying how human and machine collectives generate knowledge, innovation, and discovery. His work on complementary AI, collective intelligence, and AI societies informs how we design organizations and institutions for a world of increasingly capable agents.
Head of Machine Learning for Art and Creativity, Hugging Face
Head of Machine Learning for Art and Creativity at Hugging Face and creative technologist building open-source tools at the intersection of generative AI and artistic practice. Known as Poli, he bridges research and creative communities — from diffusion models and image generation to interactive installations.
Programme Director, ARIA
Programme Director at the UK's Advanced Research & Invention Agency (ARIA), where he leads Scaling Trust — a £50m R&D programme funding the infrastructure and research needed for AI agents operating across digital and physical worlds to coordinate securely, programmatically, and at scale. Co-founder of Flashbots; entrepreneur and investor in frontier technologies.
Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
Toshiba Professor at MIT and founding faculty director of MIT Connection Science, a pioneer of computational social science and social physics — how idea flow and social networks shape collective behavior. His work on organizational engineering, human dynamics, and trusted data systems informs how we design institutions and AI systems that coordinate at scale.
AI Lead, Ethereum Foundation
AI Lead at the Ethereum Foundation, where he started the decentralized AI team. His work focuses on protocols for decentralized AI coordination, including agent identity, reputation, payments, delegation, and verifiable interaction between autonomous systems.
Co-founder & CEO, Skyfall AI
Co-founder and CEO of Skyfall AI, which is building enterprise superintelligence through AI systems that understand and operate across an organization's data, people, and processes. Previously, Sam co-founded and led Maluuba, an AI company acquired by Microsoft in 2017.
Ways to participate
The Summit is a working convening with limited capacity. Request a spot through Luma — we'll confirm attendance as we finalize the program.
Building, researching, or funding autonomous organizations? Tell us what the field should hear. We review every application and follow up.
Share work relevant to autonomous organizations — coordination, governance, agent–human boundaries, benchmarks. Working papers and published work both welcome.