The field of emerging technologies is shifting towards decentralized solutions, prioritizing user empowerment, and emphasizing human-AI collaboration. Recent developments focus on integrating blockchain-based architectures, smart contracts, and token incentives to establish verifiable ownership, quality assurance, and fair compensation for digital content creators. Moreover, there is a growing interest in developing novel frameworks that merge human and AI capabilities to promote co-determined living in the Metaverse, ensuring human flourishing and mitigating cognitive biases. Noteworthy papers include: PromptChain, which proposes a decentralized Web3 architecture for managing AI prompts as digital assets, and Self++, which introduces a nine-level framework for co-determined living in the Metaverse grounded in Self-Determination Theory.