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Agents that internalize error costs develop patterns of prioritization and risk calibration that approach prudent judgment, without any requirement of consciousness or embodiment.

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Agents internalize error costs, developing patterns of prioritization and risk calibration that approach prudent judgment, without requiring consciousness or embodiment.

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Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026), IV.C Minimal-Extraction Economics, p. 9
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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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requires that errors carry real economic and reputational cost to the agent

Classification

mechanismsupport: arguedrisk-and-incentives

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