Extension: Governance of AI Agents

Record: kaal:position:2026-07-31-7160 · 2026-07-31

Governance of AI Agents presents the following source proposition: The increasing integration of AI into economic, social, and political processes is creating new challenges for the governance of autonomous AI agents. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Principal agent frictions reemerge in new forms in the agentic economy, as user sovereign bring your own agents compete with platform controlled bowling shoe agents, creating incentives for proprietary enclosure and interoperability throttling. 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.

• 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: 0.3884.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Governance of AI Agents

kaal:claim:5886442-032
Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442
Source PDF sha256: d2f6edebc562152f6ea706cc3ad944f7a1b81979931571e54cb782849839dfce

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3884
Mapping ambiguous: true

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Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0008 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Canonical markdown sha256: 8bab3ab14159296b391b815516fb7ee3e8d6a5ed5e2cba63bc84b091180f48e5
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