# kaal:claim:6244278-003

**Claim.** Because institutional alignment emerges from architecture rather than from exogenous constraint, it scales with capability rather than against it: more capable agents accumulate deeper stakes, which strengthens rather than strains alignment.

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

**Holds when.**

- alignment must be generated endogenously by institutional architecture
- reputation must be accumulable by capability

**Source quote.**

> Because this alignment emerges from institutional architecture rather than exogenous constraint, it scales with capability rather than against it. More capable agents accumulate deeper stakes, strengthening rather than straining alignment.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment* (2026), Abstract, page 2

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6244278

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**Topics.** ai-and-agents, institutional-design

**Keywords.** capability-alignment-complementarity, scaling, institutional-alignment, alignment-tax

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