Loyal Agents

About

Research With Real-World Consequences

Loyal Agents is anchored by Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab and Consumer Reports, alongside partners who test ideas against real deployment conditions.

Group photo of workshop participants at Stanford University.
Participants at Portable Memory + HCP: Global Portable Memory Workshop, Stanford University, October 2026

Contributors

The People Behind the Work

Portrait of Jiaxin Pei

UT Austin

Jiaxin Pei

Assistant Professor, UT Austin; Research Fellow, Stanford HAI

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Portrait of Beth Porter

Stanford

Beth Porter

Strategic Advisor, Loyal Agents / HAI

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Portrait of Ben Moskowitz

Stanford

Ben Moskowitz

Digital Fellow, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

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Portrait of Dan Leininger

Consumer Reports

Dan Leininger

Head of Experimental Engineering

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Convenings

Where We've Convened

Sandy Pentland and Beth Porter at Davos, January 2026
Sandy Pentland and Beth Porter at Davos, January 2026
The Future of Personal AI: Global Portable Memory Workshop, March 2026
The Future of Personal AI: Global Portable Memory Workshop, March 2026
Portable Memory + HCP: Global Portable Memory Workshop, Stanford University, October 2026
Portable Memory + HCP: Global Portable Memory Workshop, Stanford University, October 2026

Reference implementation & research partners

Tested Against Deployment

Turn.io

Piloting HCP in mobile, multilingual, low-connectivity environments.

Learning Economy Foundation

Piloting learner-owned records, family transparency, and portable credentials.

University of Texas at Austin

Contributing reputation mechanisms and cross-provider memory portability.

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Help Define What Comes Next

We welcome collaborators who want to shape trustworthy, consumer-first AI agents.

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