# kaal:claim:5886442-026

**Claim.** Opportunism is engineered away in the AI-to-AI economy because agents have no endogenous psychological motives for guile and operate under mathematically specified, cryptographically verifiable objective functions.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- assumes objective functions are explicitly specified and verifiable at execution

**Source quote.**

> Opportunism is engineered away: agents have no endogenous psychological motives for guile and operate under mathematically specified, cryptographically verifiable objective functions

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory* (2025), New Institutional Economics and Transaction-Cost Governance, page 22

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442

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**Topics.** economics, institutional-design

**Keywords.** opportunism, williamson, transaction-costs, verifiability, new-institutional-economics

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-030

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