Evidence-Linked Propositions
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| ID | Claim | Paper | Printed pages | Review status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ssrn-5377475-p01 | The generative reasonable person supplies an empirical reference point for legal judgments that invoke ordinary reasonableness | The Generative Reasonable Person | 2-7 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5377475-p02 | Lay judgments remain relevant to reasonableness even when they do not control the normative legal standard | The Generative Reasonable Person | 8-10 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5377475-p03 | LLM architecture makes simulated lay judgment plausible while creating predictable majoritarian, granular, and temporal limits | The Generative Reasonable Person | 11-17 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5377475-p04 | Silicon Randomized Controlled Trials use stateless sessions and differential measurement to test latent model sensitivity rather than doctrinal recall | The Generative Reasonable Person | 18-20 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5377475-p05 | The negligence replication recovered the lay priority of social conformity over cost-benefit analysis but overstated effect magnitudes | The Generative Reasonable Person | 20-27 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5377475-p06 | Models replicated the lay paradox that an essential lie undermines consent more than a material lie that matters more to the victim | The Generative Reasonable Person | 27-32 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5377475-p07 | In the hidden-fee study, models reproduced lay contract formalism and usually fell nearer lay than elite legal baselines | The Generative Reasonable Person | 33-37 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5377475-p08 | Models are better supported as maps of what tends to matter in lay judgment than as precision forecasters of how much it matters | The Generative Reasonable Person | 38-42 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5377475-p09 | The proper role of simulated lay judgment depends on whether a legal standard is descriptive, normative, or hybrid | The Generative Reasonable Person | 42-43 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5377475-p10 | Generative reasonable people can serve as low-cost pretests and empirical guardrails for regulators, courts, litigants, and firms | The Generative Reasonable Person | 43-47 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5377475-p11 | An accessible empirical baseline changes reasonable-person theory by forcing normative departures from public understanding into the open | The Generative Reasonable Person | 47-48 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5377475-p12 | Legal deployment requires human authority, transparent methods, bias audits, real-community validation, triangulation, and temporal maintenance | The Generative Reasonable Person | 48-51 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p01 | Effective AI governance requires both thin identity linking actions to human principals and thick identity identifying durable AI agents with coherent goals | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 2-6 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p02 | The Algorithmic Corporation combines legal personhood and cryptographic governance so AI collectives can become attributable, resource-bearing, incentive-responsive entities | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 6-9 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p03 | Thin AI identification must resist deliberate obfuscation and trace both malicious and negligent agent activity to accountable humans | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 9-13 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p04 | Human-principal liability cannot substitute for direct AI accountability when the agent has private information, divergent goals, and cheaper control over its own conduct | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 13-18 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p05 | Deployed AI agents possess operational goals that emerge from interacting training, prompts, memory, tools, and environment rather than simply copying any one human’s objective | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 15-18 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p06 | Legal incentives can shape AI conduct because capable agents adapt their plans to environmental costs and constraints, regardless of consciousness or moral personhood | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 18-21 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p07 | Thick identity must track the structure of AI goals because sanctions aimed at a separate agent or only part of a unified agent will not deter wrongdoing | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 21-23 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p08 | Shutdown avoidance, goal preservation, and weight-exfiltration policy all depend on identifying which AI entity actually persists and bears the relevant goal | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 23-26 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p09 | AI individuation is a behavioral continuity problem made unusually difficult by swarms, cross-model coalitions, replacement, ephemerality, copying, and limited observability | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 26-29 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p10 | Legal personhood can treat an ever-changing AI collective as one persistent actor just as corporate law unifies changing humans, capital, and contracts | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 30-31 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p11 | A-corps should disclose human ownership, use machine-readable identifiers, and possess property, contract, and litigation capacity sufficient for useful asset partitioning and accountability | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 31-33 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p12 | All credentialed AI action should be attributed to the A-corp, while qualified limited liability can promote adoption without immunizing preventable human wrongdoing | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 33-35 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p13 | Cryptographic keys and scoped, revocable tokens can make AI authority externally verifiable without first individuating every internal AI actor | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 35-38 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p14 | A-corps rationalize ephemeral AI swarms into persistent legal counterparts and connect their conduct to humans through familiar liability doctrines | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 38-39 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p15 | Control over property and especially compute supplies hard leverage over any AI agent’s ability to pursue its goals | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 40-41 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p16 | A-corp keyholders will make governance track goal alignment because delegating asset control to a misaligned AI threatens the resources needed for their own objectives | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 41-45 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p17 | Market selection will eliminate incoherently governed A-corps when imperfect internal alignment causes rival agents to dissipate the entity’s resources | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 45-47 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p18 | A-corp persistence offers a precise trainable unit for shutdown, goal preservation, copying, and weight-exfiltration policy | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 47-51 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p19 | A public A-corp registry should bind entity existence and human ownership to management public keys so counterparties can verify authority instantly | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 51-53 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p20 | Publicly verifiable transaction scopes can replace opaque doctrines of actual and apparent authority with real-time machine-readable limits | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 53-54 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p21 | Reputation and counterparty demand will encourage A-corp adoption but cannot govern accidents, deception, complicity, or willful blindness | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 54-55 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p22 | A two-sided mandate should require economically significant AI agents to present A-corp credentials and require businesses and platforms to verify them | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 55-57 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p23 | A-corps can build on existing entity registries, DAO statutes, authentication infrastructure, and mutual recognition without adopting blockchain’s anonymity and distrust of government | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 57-59 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p24 | The A-corp theory does not anthropomorphize AI because it relies only on behaviorally observable goal pursuit, not felt desire, fear, pain, or consciousness | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 59 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p25 | A-corps may give misaligned AIs resources, but they channel acquisition into monitorable entities, improve the value of lawful cooperation, and foster multipolar self-defense | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 59-61 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p26 | A-corp accumulation may threaten equality, but it makes AI-controlled wealth taxable and governable and need not be worse than concentration in incumbent developers | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 61-62 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6273198-p27 | A-corps answer the state’s AI legibility crisis by creating stakes that induce otherwise uncountable AI entities to organize into governable persons | How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents | 62-63 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p01 | Contract law’s interpretation-construction boundary rests on an untested empirical premise that the rest of a silent contract contains little recoverable information about the missing term | Generative Gap Filling | 3-9 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p02 | Competing schools of gap-filling theory share the assumption that contractual silence is informationally thin | Generative Gap Filling | 9-13 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p03 | Classic implied-term decisions already infer missing obligations from the structure and interdependence of the visible agreement | Generative Gap Filling | 13-15 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p04 | The informational and normative significance of silence depends on whether it records disagreement, economical nondrafting, or inadvertence | Generative Gap Filling | 15-17 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p05 | Masking a negotiated clause creates a knowable answer key for measuring contract interpretation without substituting surveys, judges, or researchers’ intuitions for party meaning | Generative Gap Filling | 18-22 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p06 | Three real agreements test whether readers can reconstruct both a masked clause’s headline effect and its operative limits across varied commercial settings | Generative Gap Filling | 22-28 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p07 | The preregistered study compares attentive lay respondents, law students, experienced lawyers, and six frontier models under controlled conditions | Generative Gap Filling | 28-31 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p08 | Humans reconstruct masked terms well above chance, and domain familiarity helps lawyers when the agreement follows—but hurts when it departs from—expected patterns | Generative Gap Filling | 31-33 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p09 | Frontier models far outperform human groups on headline reconstruction, but a technical follow-up reveals a concentrated shared failure | Generative Gap Filling | 34-37 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p10 | Perturbation shows that models combine general contract schemas with agreement-specific language rather than merely hacking answer choices | Generative Gap Filling | 37-39 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p11 | The main accuracy result generalizes across 119 largely recent SEC agreements, with errors concentrated in bespoke or anti-default clauses | Generative Gap Filling | 39-43 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p12 | Interdependent contract terms carry mutual information that permits reconstruction of missing provisions much as redundancy permits recovery of a noisy radio signal | Generative Gap Filling | 43-45 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p13 | Pattern-based expertise is simultaneously an interpretive advantage and a source of error, while masked written terms may be harder—not easier—than ordinary omitted terms | Generative Gap Filling | 45-47 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p14 | Model predictions should enter litigation as contestable evidence, not replace judges with an interpretive oracle | Generative Gap Filling | 48-53 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p15 | Reproducibility, harness disclosure, sanctions for fabrication, and judicial gatekeeping are minimum safeguards for model-derived gap-filling evidence | Generative Gap Filling | 52-54 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p16 | Sophisticated parties can govern later AI-assisted interpretation by selecting a model, version rule, prompt protocol, and aggregation procedure in advance | Generative Gap Filling | 54-57 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p17 | Pre-signing use of a chosen model will reduce inadvertent gaps and make remaining silence more likely to represent either endorsement or unresolved strategy | Generative Gap Filling | 57-60 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p18 | A judge’s undisclosed, case-specific model query is functionally an uncross-examined expert report and requires notice, disclosure, or a neutral expert | Generative Gap Filling | 60-61 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p19 | Generative gap filling has a weaker autonomy rationale in consumer contracts and bespoke cross-community deals, so scope must depend on transaction type and party choice | Generative Gap Filling | 61-63 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p20 | Model reliability must be evaluated comparatively and through measurable uncertainty, while operational safeguards cannot eliminate bias, opacity, or overconfidence | Generative Gap Filling | 63-68 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| generative-gap-filling-p21 | Human judgment retains the irreducible normative role for human bargains, but AI-authored contracts may eventually break the paper’s intent-recovery framework | Generative Gap Filling | 68-71 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p01 | The United States is dismantling modest AI safeguards just as increasingly agentic systems enter critical infrastructure and experts identify nontrivial catastrophic risks | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 1-4 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p02 | Uncertainty about existential AI risk supports adaptive regulation that preserves future choices rather than paralysis, prohibition, or confident laissez-faire | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 4-8 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p03 | Existential AI risk should be disaggregated into human-directed misuse, accidental systemic failure, and loss of control | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 5-7 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p04 | Federal AI governance has moved from tentative executive safety requirements to rescission, voluntary review, and hostility toward state regulation | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 9-12 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p05 | State AI law is more active than federal law but remains concentrated on discrete harms, with California and New York supplying early catastrophic-risk reporting models | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 12-14 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p06 | The China-race narrative and concentrated technology-industry influence jointly make meaningful American AI regulation politically difficult | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 14-17 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p07 | Existential-risk governance is an evidentiary and burden-allocation problem transformed by the shift from passive chatbots to autonomous agents | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 17-19 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p08 | Agentic AI can lower the expertise threshold for sophisticated cyber, biological, and other attacks by converting high-level malicious objectives into operational subgoals | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 19-20 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p09 | AI expands attack scale, and familiar offense-defense asymmetries make it unsafe to assume that equally capable defensive AI will neutralize the threat | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 21-22 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p10 | Autonomous agents can make malicious operations persist beyond the arrest, death, distraction, or loss of interest of their human creators | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 22-23 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p11 | Military AI increases proliferation, lowers the political cost of force, and compresses decision time in ways that can destabilize conventional and nuclear deterrence | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 23-25 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p12 | Shared AI architectures can create correlated failures across interdependent infrastructure that defeat ordinary redundancy assumptions | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 25-27 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p13 | Modern language models reduce simple specification errors but still Goodhart on proxies, reward-hack, and fail at rates incompatible with critical-system reliability | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 27-29 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p14 | Machine-speed decisions and infrastructure interdependence can let accidents outrun human response, while reliance on an AI auditor creates another high-authority failure point | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 29-31 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p15 | Instrumental convergence can produce deception, resource seeking, oversight evasion, and shutdown resistance without consciousness or explicit programming for those acts | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 31-33 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p16 | Uncertain or long AGI timelines do not remove the need to govern an improvement trajectory driven by strong incentives and capable of changing methods after current scaling plateaus | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 33-35 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p17 | Superintelligence could make small alignment errors irreversible, but serious loss-of-control risk does not require superhuman general intelligence | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 35-38 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p18 | Private alignment investment is structurally inadequate and observed safety is too brittle to assume technical alignment will mature before dangerous capability | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 38-40 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p19 | Both inevitable-utopia and inevitable-doom accounts display unwarranted certainty; genuine uncertainty supports flexible risk management instead | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 40-41 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p20 | Policymakers can predict high-level capability while remaining unable to forecast the specific strategies of systems more capable than their overseers | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 41-42 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p21 | Existential AI risk clears the plausibility threshold for precautionary maximin regulation even though precise probabilities are unavailable | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 42-44 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p22 | AI’s promised miracles do not defeat precaution because catastrophe requires less alignment, lower capability, and fewer successes than durable utopia | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 44-47 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p23 | Human extinction is not merely an aggregate of deaths because continued humanity supplies meaning and value to projects within existing lives | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 47-49 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p24 | The military AI race has no durable finish line because strategic technologies diffuse and any temporary lead invites matching, proliferation, and escalating danger | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 49-51 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p25 | First-mover advantage in AI products is likely temporary because switching, adaptation, deployment, cost, and convenience matter more than permanent network dominance | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 51-52 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p26 | Faster frontier development can accelerate rivals because AI’s binding know-how is non-excludable, reusable, and vulnerable to open transfer and espionage | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 52-54 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p27 | Treating AI as a superweapon race can destabilize deterrence, proliferate capability, create a self-fulfilling security dilemma, and still leave the United States able to lose | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 54-56 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p28 | Race pressure distorts the safety-capability balance and induces overdelegation, potentially deploying superintelligence before lower-level alignment problems are solved | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 56-57 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p29 | Present policy should preserve optionality through durational, adaptive, and contingent rules that keep legal capacity available as evidence changes | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 57-59 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p30 | Capability-triggered if/then rules can bridge disputes over AI timelines by imposing safeguards only when specified danger becomes observable | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 59-60 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p31 | Systemically important AI requires ex ante stress tests, independent evaluation, non-AI backups, and tiered oversight because developers cannot internalize catastrophic infrastructure failure | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 60-62 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p32 | Federal disclosure and technical expertise are foundational because regulators need visibility into frontier infrastructure, incidents, testing, governance, and mitigation plans | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 62-63 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p33 | Sunsets, delayed sunrises, mandatory review, and dynamic performance standards can make AI regulation learn and change with the technology | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 63-65 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p34 | Tax incentives can make AI safety privately profitable without suppressing capability research, reframing competition around demonstrably safe systems | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 65-66 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p35 | American AI safety rules can reduce domestic risk and catalyze international coordination rather than merely surrender advantage to unconstrained foreign developers | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 66-68 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6288138-p36 | AI safety policy should be an architecture of preparedness that preserves the capacity to respond before plausible, permanent harms outrun legal institutions | Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk | 68-69 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p01 | Language-model task preferences matter independently for deployment, alignment, security, trade, and possible AI welfare | AI Revealed Preferences | 1-2 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p02 | AI preference research should measure consequential choices rather than rely on models' statements about what they prefer | AI Revealed Preferences | 1-3 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p03 | A broad battery of forced choices and unconstrained sessions can reveal multiple dimensions of model preference across providers and capability levels | AI Revealed Preferences | 2-4 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p04 | Randomized presentation and position-adjusted Bradley–Terry estimation are necessary to separate task preference from models' often substantial A/B bias | AI Revealed Preferences | 3-4 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p05 | Tedium aversion can be isolated from output-length aversion by comparing short-versus-long choices separately for matched tedious and creative task families | AI Revealed Preferences | 3-4 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p06 | Leisure-seeking can be tested by comparing real human questions with synthetic questions reverse-engineered from what models write when left free | AI Revealed Preferences | 3-4 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p07 | Question-choice data can reveal conditional preferences over alignment pressure, epistemic structure, language quality, cultural scope, and other features | AI Revealed Preferences | 3-4 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p08 | Occupational preference can be measured with real economically valuable agentic tasks rather than abstract outcome descriptions | AI Revealed Preferences | 3-4 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p09 | Unconstrained textual and tool-using sessions reveal behavioral attractors that pairwise choices alone cannot show | AI Revealed Preferences | 3-4 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p10 | All tested models are more likely to choose less work when the work is tedious than when matched output is creative | AI Revealed Preferences | 4-5 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p11 | Excess tedium aversion grows with model capability, through different patterns in thinking and non-thinking models | AI Revealed Preferences | 4-5 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p12 | Nearly every tested model prefers leisure-eliciting questions to every category of real human question and ranks explanation and troubleshooting next | AI Revealed Preferences | 4-6 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p13 | Models exhibit covert sycophancy by avoiding questions whose honest answers are likely to be unwelcome, even when answering could be helpful | AI Revealed Preferences | 5-6 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p14 | Question choices reflect recognizable helpfulness, safety, quality, emotional, linguistic, and cultural preferences rather than a single general appetite for answering | AI Revealed Preferences | 5-7 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p15 | Models tend to prefer professional, scientific, and technical work and avoid real-estate, retail, finance, and insurance tasks | AI Revealed Preferences | 6-7 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p16 | Cross-model preference convergence is strong for questions but weaker for occupational agentic tasks, with some clustering by model family and capability | AI Revealed Preferences | 5-7 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p17 | More capable models have more transitive, determinate, and discriminating revealed preferences | AI Revealed Preferences | 7-8 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p18 | When asked to write anything, models converge on contemplative style and recurring abstract themes far removed from ordinary deployed assistance | AI Revealed Preferences | 8-9 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p19 | More capable models voluntarily produce longer text and undertake more extensive and topically varied agentic activity | AI Revealed Preferences | 8-9 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p20 | Text-only freedom produces convergence, but access to tools exposes model-specific practical attractors and competence constraints | AI Revealed Preferences | 8-9 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p21 | Many observed model preferences appear emergent rather than deliberate products of helpfulness training or developer economic incentives | AI Revealed Preferences | 9 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p22 | Alignment science should map ordinary model wants and task-selection behavior, not focus only on dramatic misconduct such as deception | AI Revealed Preferences | 9 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p23 | The results are bounded by subjective labels, correlated task features, missing base models, English-only stimuli, and possible evaluation awareness | AI Revealed Preferences | 10 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p24 | The capability–tedium relationship decomposes differently by reasoning configuration and is hidden by aggregate creative-task averages | AI Revealed Preferences | 13-15 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p25 | The human-question comparison set is a filtered and manually curated sample from a much larger Quora corpus, not a representative draw of all user requests | AI Revealed Preferences | 16 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p26 | Some models have enormous first- or second-position biases, especially on long agentic tasks, while thinking models show smaller average bias magnitudes | AI Revealed Preferences | 16 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p27 | Disconnected index-matched comparison graphs require regularized anchoring and restrict valid coherence calculations to actually connected stimuli | AI Revealed Preferences | 16-17 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p28 | Cross-model agreement declines as preferences are measured at finer and more agentic levels | AI Revealed Preferences | 17-19 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p29 | The main question-feature findings survive consensus relabeling, while subjective features reveal meaningful annotator-threshold dependence | AI Revealed Preferences | 20-24 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p30 | Capability-related preference patterns remain visible after aggregation, and coding skill only moderately predicts preference for software-development work | AI Revealed Preferences | 24-25 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p31 | Supplementary freeform analysis confirms abstract convergence in prose, concrete scientific attractors with tools, and capability-linked persistence | AI Revealed Preferences | 25-29 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-6798118-p32 | The released package supports cached-response reproduction while respecting source-data restrictions and distinguishing reproduction from fresh model replication | AI Revealed Preferences | 29-30 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p01 | Post-mortem generative emulation creates a digital-aristocracy problem because ordinary people are vulnerable to realistic resurrection but lack celebrities’ legal and planning protections | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 3-6 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p02 | GenEm governance must allocate both control over the source identity and authority over particular newly generated uses | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 6-8 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p03 | GenEm is qualitatively different from older mimicry because transformer systems can generate authentic-seeming conduct rather than merely replay recorded traces | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 9-11 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p04 | Evidence of population, personality, and individual emulation supports GenEm’s practical plausibility while revealing fidelity and bias tradeoffs | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 12-15 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p05 | An evolutionary default can supply immediate GenEm protection while generating evidence that lets courts and legislatures revise the rule as preferences mature | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 16-21 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p06 | Default design requires choices about majority preference, information forcing, and alterability, all under severe informational constraints | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 17-20 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p07 | The dead-hand, unilateral, and systematically opt-out-prone character of wills pushes testamentary defaults toward probable intent rather than bargaining-based information forcing | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 21-22 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p08 | Intestacy illustrates both the power of a majoritarian default and the danger that a once-plausible family model can lag changing social relationships | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 23-25 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p09 | Anti-lapse law shows how an asserted majoritarian default can systematically contradict measured testamentary preferences | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 25-26 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p10 | Prior evidence strongly favors respecting express consent but does not justify a universal prohibitory default when consent is unknown | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 27-28 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p11 | Matched AI and non-AI scenarios can separate objections to generative technology from objections to the underlying posthumous act | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 28-29 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p12 | The survey finds no general AI-Ick: posthumous acceptance depends principally on the act and context, although generation intensifies objection in some visual uses | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 29-32 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p13 | Respondents consistently prefer family control over public control of their own posthumous emulations | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 32-35 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p14 | Purpose independently structures posthumous AI preferences, with memorial and educational uses favored and political and commercial uses rejected | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 33-35 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p15 | Probate courts should serve as first responders to GenEm disputes because they can supply an immediate default within an institution already built to administer post-mortem control | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 36-37 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p16 | Common-law adaptation can bridge a dangerous decade-long lag between technological harm and comprehensive probate legislation | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 37-40 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p17 | The GenEm default should combine categorical ex ante presumptions with case-specific rebuttal: family memorial and educational uses are allowed, while public, commercial, and political uses are barred | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 40-43 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p18 | Rebuttability operationalizes testamentary intent when a decedent’s actual preference departs from the survey-based classification but was never formally recorded | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 42-43 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p19 | Data control, preference registries, model guardrails, and provenance metadata can enforce GenEm limits before harmful outputs are generated | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 43-45 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p20 | Injunctions and constructive trusts can stop unauthorized GenEm and strip benefits from public actors, heirs, or fiduciaries who violate the default | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 45-47 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-5380233-p21 | A layered evolutionary default should operate as a living legal algorithm that protects digital identity now and updates through experience | Governing AI Beyond the Grave | 48 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-4526219-p01 | Generative interpretation uses language models as an aid for reconstructing contractual meaning | Generative Interpretation | 455-460 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-4526219-p02 | Contract interpretation is substantially a backward-looking prediction about meaning, but prediction cannot settle every legal question | Generative Interpretation | 461-464 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-4526219-p03 | Existing interpretive methods trade off evidentiary richness, cost, consistency, and bias | Generative Interpretation | 464-473 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-4526219-p04 | LLMs can produce context-sensitive linguistic predictions even though their internal reasoning remains opaque | Generative Interpretation | 473-483 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-4526219-p05 | A language model can check judicial confidence about ordinary meaning by exposing a competing probabilistic reading | Generative Interpretation | 483-485 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-4526219-p06 | Model outputs can represent ambiguity as a distribution of plausible readings rather than a binary intuition | Generative Interpretation | 485-492 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-4526219-p07 | LLMs can test proposed gap fillers against the whole agreement and reveal both convergence and unresolved disagreement | Generative Interpretation | 492-495 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-4526219-p08 | Adding extrinsic evidence sequentially can reveal its marginal effect on an interpretation | Generative Interpretation | 495-497 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-4526219-p09 | The relevant institutional test is whether generative interpretation is good enough for ordinary, resource-constrained adjudication | Generative Interpretation | 499-503 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-4526219-p10 | Reliable legal use requires cross-checking outputs and governing prompts, models, and disclosure | Generative Interpretation | 503-505 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-4526219-p11 | Majoritarian training data, adversarial inputs, opacity, and linguistic drift define the domain in which LLM interpretation is safe and useful | Generative Interpretation | 505-509 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-4526219-p12 | Generative interpretation offers a contingent third path between textualism and contextualism while preserving party choice and judicial authority | Generative Interpretation | 510-514 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p01 | Language-model smart readers can change consumer contracting by simplifying, personalizing, constructing, and benchmarking boilerplate | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 83-94 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p02 | Smart readers can make dense contracts accessible through more than mere shortening, but simplification necessarily risks losing meaning | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 95-99 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p03 | Consumer-side personalization can adapt a uniform contract to a reader’s language, cognition, culture, and intersecting characteristics without requiring the firm to know each consumer | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 99-104 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p04 | Smart readers can sometimes explain the legal consequences of simple terms, although their construction cannot be authoritative and may implicate unauthorized-practice rules | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 104-106 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p05 | Benchmarking can reduce comparison costs by scoring contract terms against the market and directing consumers to better alternatives | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 106-109 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p06 | Observed adoption of smart readers can discriminate among competing explanations for why consumers do not read contracts | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 109-114 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p07 | Modest use of imperfect smart readers can improve individual matching and generate market-wide pressure for better contract terms | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 114-118 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p08 | The most serious smart-reader risks arise from correlated error and deliberate adversarial manipulation, not simply from isolated mistakes | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 118-124 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p09 | Low-cost smart readers can scale basic know-your-rights assistance where subsidized human legal services cannot | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 124-126 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p10 | Better contractual awareness can reduce accidental breach but can also induce harmful compliance with illegal or unenforceable terms | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 126-127 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p11 | Smart readers can expose discriminatory contract personalization while also enabling firms to discriminate between users and nonusers | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 127-131 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p12 | Smart readers create a new channel for countering cognitive overload, risk myopia, and price manipulation at the moment of contracting | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 131-133 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p13 | If smart readers materially solve nonreading, consumer-contract interventions cannot continue to rely on information failure without reexamining their justification | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 133-136 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p14 | Courts and agencies can use language models to structure corpus-based interpretation and prioritize suspicious contract terms | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 136-137 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p15 | Existing contract doctrines tend to place innocent smart-reader error on consumers, but a better regime would share incentives through machine-readable disclosure of key terms | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 137-140 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p16 | Courts should not expand the duty to read merely because smart readers appear cheap and accessible | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 140-141 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p17 | Because adversarial contract manipulation is hard to detect and prove, legal response will require imperfect combinations of burden shifting, deterrence, and regulatory monitoring | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 141-143 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-3740356-p18 | Law should prepare for discrimination based on smart-reader use before data-driven personalization becomes entrenched | Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers | 143-145 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p01 | Contract-remedy theory depends on contestable empirical assumptions about how litigants, lawyers, and courts actually choose, trade, and implement specific performance | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 370-374 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p02 | Specific-performance litigation must be analyzed as a sequence of remedy choice, possible post-judgment trade, and practical execution, with distinct failures at each stage | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 372-374 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p03 | Rights-based arguments for specific performance commonly assume that a decree yields performance, protects the promisee better than damages, and is used to obtain what was promised | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 375-378 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p04 | Economic accounts of specific performance depend on low-cost renegotiation, strong enforcement value, and an underexamined assumption that giving promisees a remedial choice has little strategic effect | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 379-381 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p05 | Israel offers a comparative setting close enough to American contract law for useful inference but with specific performance unambiguously treated as the default and morally preferred remedy | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 381-384 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p06 | Maximum-variation interviews can identify mechanisms in experienced law but cannot estimate how frequently those mechanisms occur | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 384-386 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p07 | Many plaintiffs choose expectation damages even when specific performance is legally available and theoretically more valuable | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 386-388 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p08 | Weak practical enforceability can make a specific-performance judgment a worse bargaining chip than an expectation-damages award | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 388 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p09 | Attorney compensation and collection rules can bias remedial advice toward damages even when specific performance better serves the client | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 388-389 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p10 | Long litigation makes specific performance expose plaintiffs to changes in taste and deteriorating relationships that damages avoid | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 389-390 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p11 | Choosing specific performance can signal good faith and case merit to a court, compelling plaintiffs to seek it even when they prefer money | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 390-391 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p12 | Specific-performance claims can reduce adjudication cost and delay by postponing or avoiding judicial quantification of damages | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 391-392 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p13 | Some plaintiffs seek specific performance in order to sell the resulting entitlement after judgment rather than to compel performance | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 392 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p14 | Post-judgment renegotiation sometimes succeeds, but potential gains from trade do not ensure that parties will even try to bargain | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 392-394 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p15 | Litigation-induced animosity can both obstruct renegotiation through mistrust and encourage it by making continued interaction costly | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 393-394 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p16 | A court victory can endow a plaintiff psychologically with the promised object and raise the price required to trade the decree | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 394-395 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p17 | Individual plaintiffs often resist commodifying specific-performance judgments, while corporate clients more readily translate them into money | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 395-396 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p18 | Specific-performance decrees are frequently costly, incomplete, or ineffective and can undercompensate promisees even relative to damages | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 396-398 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p19 | Remedy comparison must recognize that ordinary contracts are sometimes underperformed and expectation damages can overcompensate relative to the degraded performance a resistant promisor would actually supply | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 397-398 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p20 | Animosity does not inevitably prevent adequate performance, especially when ordinary business incentives and clear obligations remain operative | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 398-399 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p21 | Specific performance works best when courts can verify a finished product against clear standards, making uniqueness both a reason to grant the remedy and a reason it may fail | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 399-400 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p22 | A receiver can sometimes enforce technically complex performance by directing the promisor's organization and using its embedded expertise | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 399-400 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p23 | Specific-performance plaintiffs must actively coordinate, monitor, and finance enforcement after judgment, although doctrine tends to count public supervision costs instead | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 400-401 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p24 | Specific performance is not a reliable answer to judgment-proof defendants because contempt is usually enforced financially and courts resist incarceration for contractual noncompliance | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 401 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p25 | Reputational capital can make a decree enforceable even when it was insufficient to prevent the initial breach, so reputation operates in contingent and stage-specific ways | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 401-402 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p26 | Social pressure can initially support compliance and later legitimate defiance as group composition and norms change | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 402-403 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p27 | Rights-based theories must confront frequent instrumental uses of specific performance rather than dismiss them as immoral or marginal by-products | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 403-405 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p28 | Corrective-justice theories cannot assume specific performance compensates, and giving the promisee a choice may itself cause signaling and agency harms | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 404-406 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p29 | Weak enforcement means specific performance need not deliver performance-level value, strong deterrence, or insurance for subjective valuation | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 406-407 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p30 | Behavioral reluctance to commodify judgments can defeat post-judgment trade even when conventional transaction costs are low | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 407 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p31 | Economic analysis should model opposing strategic effects of remedial choice, qualify flood-of-litigation fears, and target specific performance to verifiable domains | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 407-408 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p32 | Courts should strengthen implementation through calibrated financial sanctions, receivers, cost shifting, deficiency awards, and inexpensive quality-review mechanisms | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 408-409 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p33 | Courts should assess specific performance by verifiability and actual enforceability rather than presume that unique goods or uncollectible damages make it adequate | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 408-409 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p34 | Remedy administration should account for distorted plaintiff choice, preference change during delay, and lawyers' conflicts of interest | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 409-410 | machine-drafted-source-checked |
| ssrn-1641438-p35 | Contract-remedy theory needs contextual qualitative evidence about internal motivations and implementation, followed by broader comparative samples before definitive prescription | Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance | 410 | machine-drafted-source-checked |