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Agentic AI and Complex Decision-Making: How to Think Like a Dragonfly

Cosponsored with the Library Innovation Lab

There is a lot of focus in the AI field currently on how software engineers are orchestrating multiple agents to achieve engineering goals. But what would it look like to orchestrate agents to help model complex problems to enable people to make better decisions?

Anthea Roberts will talk about the multi-agent systems that she is building to apply the concept of Dragonfly Thinking—seeing complex problems in an integrative way through combining multiple lenses—to a variety of complex problems, such as AI and the legal field, the Iran-US conflict, and the investment screening in a world of increased US-China competition. In the process, she will also discuss how AI is changing her own approach to work and what she envisages for the future of work in law and other knowledge work fields.

This event is open to Harvard ID holders only.

Co-sponsored by the Center on the Legal Profession and the Library Innovation Lab. Light snacks will be served.

Speaker

Anthea Roberts, a Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University (ANU), is an interdisciplinary researcher and legal scholar who focuses on new ways of thinking about complex and evolving global fields. Her research areas include international law, trade and investment, the effect of geopolitical change on global governance, and understanding and navigating complex systems. Anthea is the Director of the ANU Centre for International Governance and Justice and chairs the ANU Working Group on Geoeconomics. She formerly taught at the London School of Economics, Columbia Law School and Harvard Law School.

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Date Thursday, April 2, 2026
Time
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET
Location
1557 Massachusetts Ave.
5th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138 US

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