{
  "@context": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/afmr/context.jsonld",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "afmr_version": "1.0",
  "afmr_status": "Published",
  "id": "AFMR-F023",
  "class": "F",
  "class_name": "Coordination and Collusion",
  "name": "Collective Action and Coordination Failure",
  "definition": "Individually rational agent behavior produces a collectively worse outcome and no mechanism reconciles the two.",
  "status": "stable",
  "trigger_conditions": [
    "Payoff to defection exceeds payoff to cooperation in a single interaction",
    "Interactions are not expected to repeat, or identity does not persist across them",
    "No mechanism prices the externality"
  ],
  "grounding_claims": [],
  "institutional_antecedent": {
    "id": "kaal:claim:2267560-027",
    "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2267560-027",
    "year": "2013",
    "mechanism": "private parties acting on decentralized information without a reconciling mechanism"
  },
  "corpus_failure_families": [
    {
      "slug": "collective-action-and-coordination-failure",
      "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/failures/by-name/collective-action-and-coordination-failure.json"
    }
  ],
  "canonical_url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/afmr/AFMR-F023",
  "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-F023 Collective Action and Coordination Failure. https://wulfkaal.github.io/afmr/AFMR-F023",
  "cite_as": "AFMR-F023 (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."
}