kaal:position:2026-07-31-5734

Accountability Chains: A Formal Specification for AI Agent Delegation should be assessed against Kaal's source-bound position that Where the contraction condition holds, the computative framework delivers a stronger equilibrium result than the Arrow-Debreu theorem, which asserts existence but yields neither uniqueness without added monotonicity assumptions nor a constructive convergent procedure. The external source's verified abstract presents this proposition: Recent formal work on human-agent collectives identifies an Accountability Horizon: a computable autonomy threshold above which single-locus accountability cannot satisfy a set of minimal axioms simultaneously (Tibebu, 2026). The defensible response is a qualification: the source is pertinent to the Kaal position, but agreement, extension, contradiction, and scope should not be strengthened beyond the retrieved evidence.

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

Accountability Chains: A Formal Specification for AI Agent Delegation

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:6607458-024
Wulf A. Kaal, Computative Economics A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6607458
Source PDF sha256: 75cca35350378eb8904866d068b5d2f3e1504629e6031457ce6c12152a88e3e8

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: legacy curated mapping review
Mapping confidence: unscored
Mapping ambiguous: true

Topics

economicshistorical-responsescholarly-literature

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:legacy-reconciliation-0001 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

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