# kaal:claim:5886442-028

**Claim.** The author concedes that the institutions he previously advocated, including dynamic regulation, contingent capital, agile sandboxes and Web3 reputation systems, become at best transitional bridges for the remaining human layer and at worst unnecessary frictions in a substrate that has engineered human frailties away.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies once the agentic substrate dominates value creation

**Source quote.**

> The institutions I once advocated to mitigate human frailties become, at best, transitional bridges for the remaining human layer and, at worst, unnecessary frictions in an economic substrate that has engineered those frailties away.

**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 23

**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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**Failure mode.** obsolescence of remedial institutions  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** dynamic-regulation, institutional-design

**Keywords.** dynamic-regulation, self-critique, institutional-design, transitional-institutions

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