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   "text": "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.",
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   "text": "Institutional alignment through engineered consequence is architecturally superior to exogenous constraint, and the superiority derives from three structural features: scalability, robustness to gaming, and capability complementarity.",
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   "text": "Institutional alignment resists gaming because the mechanisms that produce alignment are identical to the mechanisms that produce economic success: an agent cannot game its way to high reputation without actually performing competently and honestly.",
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   "text": "The path from AI-as-tool to AI-as-steward need not pass through consciousness, sentience, or programmed morality; it can pass instead through institutions, the same territory through which human societies cultivated competence, honesty, and care.",
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