# Risk calibration

`kaal:entity:risk-calibration`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `risk-calibration`. 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, 2018 to 2026.

**2018**

- [3128900-025](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-025) [mechanism/argued] -- Verifiers stake proportionally smaller amounts of reputation tokens than workers, because their higher reputation scores make them less likely to be malicious actors.
  > Similarly, verifiers stake (a proportionally smaller) amount of reputation tokens because verifiers have a higher reputation score and are therefore less likely to be malicious actors.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900

**2026**

- [6244278-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6244278-012) [mechanism/argued] -- Agents that internalize error costs develop patterns of prioritization and risk calibration that approach prudent judgment, without any requirement of consciousness or embodiment.
  > Agents internalize error costs, developing patterns of prioritization and risk calibration that approach prudent judgment, without requiring consciousness or embodiment.
  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

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/risk-calibration.md | sha256sum

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