Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Centre<\/a> (HKGAI) said it would soon offer on an open-source basis a human-AI agent collaboration network named \u201cClawNet\u201d, designed to ensure AI agents \u201conly do things that are allowed\u201d, according to a presentation by the centre on Monday.<\/p>\nThe HKGAI is a government-backed research hub established under the city\u2019s InnoHK innovation programme and led by academics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).<\/p>\n
Under the network\u2019s proposed governance framework, AI agents would be assigned distinct \u201csocial identities\u201d and operational boundaries.<\/p>\n
The push for clearer governance comes as Chinese regulators and state institutions have tightened controls on the open-source AI agent tool OpenClaw, citing concerns that such systems can gain unusually broad access to user devices and data.<\/p>\n
While humans would retain the power of authorisation and decision-making, AI agents could autonomously execute tasks and collaborate across the network within strictly defined limits, ensuring every action remained traceable, the HKGAI said.<\/p>\n
Currently, AI agents operated in silos, serving individual users without a broader social context, according to Zhang Yonggang, a research assistant professor at the HKUST<\/a>, who spoke at the presentation on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong is poised to launch the world\u2019s first open-source human-AI agent collaboration network, along with a series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,167967,167972,167968,343,344,167971,165976,25063,93890,93893,3448,5423,85,93885,46,28770,140225,125,167969,167970],"class_list":["post-343651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-horse-racing","tag-ai-meeting-minutes-assistant","tag-ai-writing-assistant","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-clawnet","tag-employees-retraining-board","tag-financial-secretary-paul-chan-mo-po","tag-hkchat","tag-hkgai","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology","tag-il","tag-innohk","tag-israel","tag-john-lee-ka-chiu","tag-openclaw","tag-technology","tag-upskill-hong-kong","tag-zhang-yonggang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}