Our DPhil student Jesse Wright has been attending the prestigious Dagsthul Seminar Trust and Accountability in Knowledge Graph-Based AI for Self Determination in January 2025.

As a result of this seminar, participants of this seminar co-authored a seminal paper “Towards Computer-Using Personal Agents”.

The paper outlines the vision of Computer-Using Agents (CUA), which are expected to enable users to automate increasingly complex tasks, in the not too far future, using graphical interfaces such as browsers. The authors propose Computer-Using Personal Agents (CUPAs) that have access to an external repository of the user’s personal information, offering users better control of their personal data, the potential to automate more tasks involving personal data, better interoperability with external sources of data, and better capabilities to coordinate with other CUPAs in order to solve collaborative tasks involving the personal data of multiple users.

The full paper can be found arxiv.