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The Khipu Problem: Institutional Legibility Under Distributed Cognition

AI governance still tends to assume that the relevant object is a bounded model or a bounded agent. That assumption is getting weaker. Real systems increasingly distribute cognition across models, tools, humans, context stores, retrieval layers, runtime policies, authorization boundaries, and delegated institutional roles. In such systems, the central governance problem is no longer only what the system did, but whether later institutions can still read what the system was. This paper introduces

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Published: 6 May 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (6 May 2026), “The Khipu Problem: Institutional Legibility Under Distributed Cognition,” evidence record 4897, https://ethics.ai/record/4897 (originally published by arXiv).

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