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

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-018 · 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 seven smart contracts implement decision submission, symbolic rule version hashing, neural-symbolic conflict detection, governance voting for rule amendments, citizen decision trace queries, counterfactual incident replay, and cryptographically signed regulatory audit export. This bears on Kaal's claim that an immutable blockchain log of transactions and modifications inside AI systems lets stakeholders trace the lineage of an AI decision back to its original data inputs, which makes errors easier to identify and correct. The proposed contracts operationalize decision lineage through rule hashes, conflict detection, trace queries, replay, and audit export, extending Kaal's general lineage mechanism. 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.
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Current debate

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

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:4941807-018
Wulf A. Kaal, AI Governance Via Web3 Reputation System (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4941807
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Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification
Mapping confidence: 0.5
Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

blockchaincompliancegovernance-designai-and-agentscitation-and-knowledgehistorical-responsescholarly-literaturecrossref

Provenance

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

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