# Capture risk

`kaal:entity:capture-risk`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `capture-risk`. 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 2 works, 2025 to 2026.

**2025**

- [5887242-038](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5887242-038) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Existing rulemaking bodies are financially compromised at the source: legislatures depend on taxation or political patronage, and private standard-setting bodies depend on dues, sponsorships or foundation grants that create capture risks.
  > Legislative bodies are funded by taxation or political patronage. Private standard-setting bodies rely on dues, sponsorships, or foundation grants that create capture risks.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242

**2026**

- [7596939-033](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/7596939-033) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Giving the agent the trigger relocates the capture problem rather than removing it: where the deployer sets the agent's configuration, capture moves from the controller's wallet to the agent's configuration.
  > Should intelligent agents have legal rights? This Article sets that question aside and asks a smaller one that matters more in practice. An intelligent agent that earns a reputation record has something to lose.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Should an Intelligent Agent Have Legal Rights? (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7596939

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