kaal:claim:4796714-015

When decentralization at the Layer 1 level is compromised, the autonomy of the smart contracts deployed on that chain is compromised by affiliation, so smart contracts are corruptible in the current design and cannot reliably serve as neutral instruments of ethical AI governance.

When the decentralization of Layer 1 blockchains is compromised, the autonomy of smart contracts is inherently jeopardized, undermining their effectiveness as tools for ethical AI governance.

Wulf A. Kaal, AI Governance (2024), Recentralization, p. 28
https://ssrn.com/abstract=4796714 · source PDF

Wulf A. Kaal, AI Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4796714

• applies where a few dominant parties influence the underlying Layer 1
• holds under current blockchain design as of 2024

mechanismsupport: arguedfailure: smart contract corruptibility by affiliationfamily: recentralization-driftsmart-contractsdecentralizationcompliancegovernance-designai-and-agents

• contested_by kaal:claim:4941807-019 Smart contracts can automate compliance with regulatory requirements and ethical guidelines: for example, a sm...
• contests kaal:claim:2992962-025 Coding regulatory conditions into smart contracts lowers regulators' cost of supervision and enforcement while...

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