Wednesday 9 September 2026 · Emerging Patterns · P281
P281: The Consequence Reception Gap
Source. Hu, Rong. arXiv:2605.16872.
Claim. AI agents act consequentially, but no continuing agent receives corrective feedback — the moral crumple zone (Elish) by design.
If some body does not receive the pain by design, some body will receive it by default. Accountability requires a reception surface that persists across actions. Edges the veto and corrigibility cluster.
Edges. P268 / P270 / P277 / P278 / P280. EN catalog was 230 before this ship.