# kaal:claim:6819121-017

**Claim.** The framework predicts three failure modes — agent-executed governance attacks, governance paralysis from agent disagreement, and alignment drift in long-participating agents — all worsening as autonomous-agent participation grows, with DAOs lacking AI-alignment infrastructure the first to experience them.

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

**Holds when.**

- DAOs with growing autonomous-agent participation

**Source quote.**

> The framework predicts that all three will worsen as autonomous-agent participation grows, and that DAOs without AI-alignment infrastructure will be the first to experience them.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Institutional Deficit in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - An Empirical Analysis* (2026), VI. Findings, Finding 2, page 19

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The Institutional Deficit in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - An Empirical Analysis (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6819121

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**Topics.** ai-and-agents, dao, risk-and-incentives, systemic-risk

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