Qualification: The Role of Algorithmic Fiduciaries in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and the Assignment of Duty and Developer Liability for Autonomous Smart Governance

Record: kaal:position:2026-07-31-2259 · 2026-07-31

The Role of Algorithmic Fiduciaries in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and the Assignment of Duty and Developer Liability for Autonomous Smart Governance should be assessed against Kaal's source-bound claim that Oversight liability in Delaware can be established only on a showing that the directors knew they were not discharging their fiduciary duties or consciously disregarded their responsibilities. The current metadata indicates a plausible connection through decentralized autonomous organization, but the defensible response is a qualification until the source text confirms agreement, scope, methods, and limitations.

Affirmed commentary position. This record extends a source-bound scholarly claim but is not a verbatim paper claim.
Holds when
Current debate

The Role of Algorithmic Fiduciaries in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and the Assignment of Duty and Developer Liability for Autonomous Smart Governance

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:kaal-2013-acomparativeperspectiveo-007
Kaal, A Comparative Perspective on the Limitations of the Duty of Oversight - A Comment on Lisa Fairfax (2013)
Source PDF sha256: ac5c955fe01209c54c78c4575c0b8bf570e5f1259c3f855510697cf51a32e59a

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: mapping review before claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.2515
Mapping ambiguous: true

Topics

law-and-legal-systemscorporate-governance

Provenance

Affirmed in historical-backfill:2026-07-31:phase-0010 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Verify

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