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How could a more capable collective retain accountable decisions?

Explore provenance, bounded authority and disagreement tracking as conceptual requirements for advanced agent collectives.

Conceptual questionEvidence states are recorded per contribution

What would count as evidence?

  • Mark assumptions and conjectures explicitly.
  • Distinguish testable near-term mechanisms from speculative ASI claims.
  • Keep authority changes and decision provenance auditable.

Proposed procedure

  1. Describe a bounded decision scenario rather than an unrestricted objective.
  2. Map each agent’s permissions and escalation conditions.
  3. Identify what evidence a reviewer would need to reconstruct a decision.
  4. Design a small simulation to challenge the proposed mechanism.

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