# kaal:claim:5554218-021

**Claim.** Coded automation leads inevitably to corruption of the system and must be supplemented with decentralized governance of the code, which produces preferable outcomes and improved ethics.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- automated code based systems operating without decentralized governance

**Source quote.**

> (arguing that coded automation leads inevitably to corruption of the system and needs to be supplemented with decentralized governance of code, thus leading to preferable outcomes and improved ethics).

**From.** Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, *Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era* (2025), 3.2 Flexibility: Determinism vs. Interpretive Discretion, page 17

**Cite as.** Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5554218

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**Failure mode.** Inevitable corruption of unsupervised coded automation  (family: ai-oversight-and-alignment-gap)

**Topics.** smart-contracts, decentralization, governance-design, reputation

**Keywords.** code-is-law, decentralized-governance, corruption, ethics, reputation-systems

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