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Claim. The central prediction is comparative and falsifiable: holding stake, detection and persistence fixed, agents holding their own contest right should keep their records more often than agents whose identical stake is held by a bounded discretionary controller.

Type. predictive · Support. argued

Holds when

• wrongdoer can offer side payments above the controller's exposure

Source quote

Holding stake, detection, and persistence fixed, agents holding their own contest right should keep their records through attempted wrongful destruction more often than agents whose identical stake is held by a bounded discretionary controller

From. Wulf A. Kaal, Should an Intelligent Agent Have Legal Rights? (2026). Full text.

Cite as. Wulf A. Kaal, Should an Intelligent Agent Have Legal Rights? (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7596939

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