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Exogenous constraints scale against capability, since more powerful agents require more resources to constrain, producing an ever-increasing alignment tax.

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Exogenous constraints scale against capability: the more powerful the agent, the greater the resources required to constrain it, producing an ever-increasing "alignment tax."

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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. 12
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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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applies to alignment strategies based on external control

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mechanismsupport: arguedfailure: escalating alignment taxfamily: ai-oversight-and-alignment-gapai-and-agents

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