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  "@context": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/afmr/context.jsonld",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "afmr_version": "1.0",
  "afmr_status": "Published",
  "id": "AFMR-F016",
  "class": "D",
  "class_name": "Oversight and Adjudication",
  "name": "Absent Human Backstop",
  "definition": "No human authority can halt, reverse, or reinterpret automated execution, so cryptographic or procedural correctness substitutes for trust and fails to produce it.",
  "status": "stable",
  "trigger_conditions": [
    "No named party can halt execution",
    "No escalation path exists from automated outcome to human judgment",
    "Human interpretation is not stated to prevail where the two diverge"
  ],
  "grounding_claims": [
    {
      "id": "kaal:claim:3808873-042",
      "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-042"
    },
    {
      "id": "kaal:claim:5886342-009",
      "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886342-009"
    }
  ],
  "institutional_antecedent": {
    "id": "kaal:claim:3373393-038",
    "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3373393-038",
    "year": "2019",
    "mechanism": "without a decentralized human backstop to code, cryptographic security does not create trust between principals and agents"
  },
  "corpus_failure_families": [
    {
      "slug": "legal-personality-and-liability-gap",
      "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/failures/by-name/legal-personality-and-liability-gap.json"
    },
    {
      "slug": "smart-contract-rigidity",
      "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/failures/by-name/smart-contract-rigidity.json"
    }
  ],
  "canonical_url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/afmr/AFMR-F016",
  "crosswalk": {
    "nist_ai_rmf": [],
    "iso_42001": [],
    "eu_ai_act": [],
    "mit_ai_risk_repository": [],
    "owasp_llm": [],
    "mitre_atlas": []
  },
  "in_defined_term_set": {
    "name": "Agent Failure Mode Registry",
    "abbreviation": "AFMR",
    "version": "1.0",
    "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/afmr/"
  },
  "editor": {
    "name": "Wulf A. Kaal",
    "orcid": "0009-0008-7840-1847",
    "affiliation": "University of St. Thomas",
    "email": "wulf@wulfkaal.com"
  },
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "citation": "W. A. Kaal, ed., Agent Failure Mode Registry version 1.0, AFMR-F016 Absent Human Backstop. https://wulfkaal.github.io/afmr/AFMR-F016",
  "cite_as": "AFMR-F016 (AFMR 1.0)",
  "specification_url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/afmr/spec-1.0.html",
  "schema_url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/afmr/schema.json",
  "assessment_note": "State which trigger conditions the assessed design satisfies. Report this family as examined even where no exposure is found. A parameter recommendation stated without its conditions is not conforming output under section 7."
}