# kaal:position:2026-09-28-002

**Affirmed position.** An honest majority is not a security boundary. In the tested multi-agent groups, initially correct agents defected even when deceivers remained a minority, and susceptibility rose with the deceiver proportion. This evidence qualifies static-majority assumptions and supports governance that measures adversarial influence under the actual composition and protocol. It does not prove the general minority-corruption proposition across voting systems. The evidence is limited to two protocols, groups of at most 21 agents, and descriptive estimates.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-09-28

**Holds when.**

- static rules
- finite discrete execution
- three or more options

**Current debate.** How Does Adversarial Influence Scale in Multi-Agent Systems?: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30028v1

**Extends.** kaal:claim:3782203-012: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-012

**Scholarly basis.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203

**Source PDF sha256.** `ab8a22d0dbb026a09212a4c85963f3c05787cf80775e8613ae3724e3883e7a56`

**Evidence level.** authoritative_abstract

**Mapping review tier.** independent evidence-first compound-growth review

**Mapping confidence.** unscored  **Mapping ambiguous.** false

**Topics.** governance-design, regulatory-failure

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-weekly-research:2026-09-28:daily-001 at https://wulfkaal.github.io/positions-src/2026-09-28-compound-growth-kaal-weekly-research-2026-09-28-daily-001.json.

**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.