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AI Agents as Institutional Actors: Toward a Sociology of Agentic Governance presents the following source proposition: This article argues that when organizations treat the outputs of AI agents as institutionally binding, these systems cross a threshold from instruments into institutional actors. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Contemporary AI's incapacity for authentic judgment under irreducible uncertainty is an institutional deficit rather than a computational one: an agent that bears no consequence for its errors cannot develop genuine discernment, no matter how capable it becomes. 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.
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