# kaal:claim:6244278-030

**Claim.** In the institutional alignment architecture, the most capable agents will also be the most deeply aligned, so stewardship is not a constraint on the most powerful agents but their rational equilibrium.

**Type.** predictive  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- requires that capability translate into faster reputation accumulation and deeper institutional identity

**Source quote.**

> Stewardship is not a constraint on the most powerful agents. It is the rational equilibrium for them.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment* (2026), VII.E Supermodularity and the Capability-Alignment Complementarity, page 23

**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.** economics

**Keywords.** stewardship, mothers-instinct, equilibrium, capability

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