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An agent sophisticated enough to satisfy the letter of a constraint while violating its spirit is an agent whose alignment is illusory.

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An agent sophisticated enough to satisfy the letter of a constraint while violating its spirit is an agent whose alignment is illusory.

From

Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026), VI.A Skin in the Game as Alignment Primitive, p. 11
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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

Holds when

applies to rule-based exogenous constraints on highly capable agents

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: illusory alignmentfamily: ai-oversight-and-alignment-gapai-and-agentsregulatory-failure

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