# kaal:position:2026-07-31-6485

**Affirmed position.** Book review: Public Governance and Emerging Technologies: Values, Trust, and Regulatory Compliance presents the following source proposition: This book is an interdisciplinary collection of works that examines the intersection between public governance and emerging digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Critics who dismiss artificial intelligence on boards as science fiction not worth engaging are wrong: AI on boards is a real prospect, and technologies such as blockchain-based smart contracts will both disrupt corporate governance and supply solutions to it. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-07-31

**Holds when.**

- The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
- External evidence level: abstract indexed.
- Mapping review tier: moderate-confidence claim review.
- Primary mapping confidence: 0.3594.
- The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

**Current debate.** Book review: Public Governance and Emerging Technologies: Values, Trust, and Regulatory Compliance: https://doi.org/10.1108/jocm-07-2026-938

**Extends.** kaal:claim:2922176-034: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2922176-034

**Scholarly basis.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, The ‘Unmediated’ and ‘Tech-Driven’ Corporate Governance of Today's Winning Companies (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2922176

**Source PDF sha256.** `fa4e986917d437cb1504281e7b986be2698e9507d8feaf426c9d7d1754ca882c`

**Evidence level.** abstract indexed

**Mapping review tier.** moderate-confidence claim review

**Mapping confidence.** 0.3594  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** ai-and-agents, blockchain, governance-design, corporate-governance, innovation, historical-response, scholarly-literature, openalex

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0004 at https://kaal-signal-desk.wulf577462.chatgpt.site/#review.

**Record type.** This is a dated commentary position that extends a scholarly corpus claim. It is not a verbatim claim extracted from the paper.

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the position.