kaal:claim:7314479-014

Attribution failure dissolves responsibility into composition: where contribution cannot be traced, fault cannot be assigned, and no participant has an incentive to prevent it.

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Attribution failure is not merely an inconvenience for debugging. It is the dissolution of responsibility into composition. Where contribution cannot be traced, fault cannot be assigned, and where fault cannot be assigned, no participant has an incentive to prevent it.
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Wulf A. Kaal, Institutional Requirements for Sovereign Local Agent Runtimes (2026), V. The Accountability Gap, Stated Precisely, p. 9
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Wulf A. Kaal, Institutional Requirements for Sovereign Local Agent Runtimes (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7314479

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failuresupport: arguedrisk-and-incentivesgovernance-designai-and-agents

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