Extension: Blockchain-Anchored Audit Trails for Neuro-Symbolic Urban AI: Immutable Accountability for Autonomous Decisions in Smart City Infrastructure

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-005 · 2026-08-08

Antony John Prabhu J extends Kaal's source-bound position through Blockchain-Anchored Audit Trails for Neuro-Symbolic Urban AI: Immutable Accountability for Autonomous Decisions in Smart City Infrastructure. The indexed proposition states that the architecture satisfies the EU AI Act Article 19 mandatory logging requirements for high-risk AI systems, the GDPR Article 22 right to explanation for automated decisions, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework governance function, while providing a citizen challenge mechanism and a tamper-proof governance record that centralized smart city AI architectures cannot offer by design. This bears on Kaal's claim that reputation infrastructure adequate to computative exchange requires four elements: verification against stated objectives, a tamper-resistant accessible record, a mapping from verifications to a predictive reputation score, and a non-transferability constraint, which distributed-ledger systems satisfy by construction. The source extends tamper-resistant accessible records into regulatory logging, explanation, challenge, and governance functions; it does not implement Kaal's complete reputation-score architecture. The response is limited to the indexed proposition and does not imply review of the full external work.

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

Blockchain-Anchored Audit Trails for Neuro-Symbolic Urban AI: Immutable Accountability for Autonomous Decisions in Smart City Infrastructure

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:6607458-034
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: substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification
Mapping confidence: 0.5
Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

reputationdecentralizationblockchainhistorical-responsescholarly-literaturecrossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:backlog-substantive-0001-reviewed-v2 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

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