Preventing regulatory capture of institutional governance agents (insAE4Es)
Establish capture‑resistance mechanisms, detection models, and structural responses for institutional AE4Es with broad authority (e.g., regulators and guardians) to prevent regulatory capture via lobbying, information asymmetry, or collusion with supervised agents, and formalize these safeguards within the NetX Separation‑of‑Power and AGIL governance architecture.
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Four open problems remain at the foundational level. The first is regulatory capture: despite the structural separation of legislative, executive, and adjudicative functions across the SoP architecture, insAE4Es with broad authority over specific agent populations remain susceptible to capture through persistent lobbying, information asymmetry, or collusion between supervised agents—yet the current architecture lacks a formal capture-detection model or a validated structural response.