# Alignment tax

`kaal:entity:alignment-tax`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `alignment-tax`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2026 to 2026.

**2026**

- [6244278-003](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6244278-003) [mechanism/argued] -- Because institutional alignment emerges from architecture rather than from exogenous constraint, it scales with capability rather than against it: more capable agents accumulate deeper stakes, which strengthens rather than strains alignment.
  > Because this alignment emerges from institutional architecture rather than exogenous constraint, it scales with capability rather than against it. More capable agents accumulate deeper stakes, strengthening rather than straining alignment.
  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
- [6244278-016](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6244278-016) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Exogenous constraints scale against capability, since more powerful agents require more resources to constrain, producing an ever-increasing alignment tax.
  > Exogenous constraints scale against capability: the more powerful the agent, the greater the resources required to constrain it, producing an ever-increasing "alignment tax."
  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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