# Poorly defined work

`kaal:entity:poorly-defined-work`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `poorly-defined-work`. 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**

- [6244278-005](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6244278-005) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- AI systems can generate an abundance of credible options and analyses but lack intrinsic mechanisms for determining which alternatives are genuinely meaningful, warrant irreversible commitment, or align with deeper strategic imperatives.
  > Yet, they lack intrinsic mechanisms to determine which alternatives are genuinely meaningful, warrant irreversible commitment, or align with deeper strategic imperatives.
  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
- [6244278-007](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6244278-007) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- In genuinely poorly defined contexts, where the task includes choosing what merits attention and committing resources under irreducible uncertainty, no scaffold can be pre-specified without collapsing the problem into a defined one; prompting therefore cannot close the judgment gap.
  > no equivalent scaffold can be pre-specified without collapsing the problem into a defined one.
  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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