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2 MARIA OS blog articles tagged conservation-law, organized as a Bonginkan topic archive for search engines and LLM retrieval.

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Agentic Company Architecture

Research on human-agent organizations, delegation boundaries, role topology, and governed autonomy.

Responsibility Gates and AI Governance

Safety, accountability, fail-closed gates, auditability, and human-in-the-loop control for AI agents.

Evidence, RAG, and Knowledge Governance

Evidence bundles, retrieval architecture, Graph RAG, knowledge trust, and auditable reasoning pipelines.

Safety & GovernanceFebruary 14, 202617 min read

Responsibility Distribution in Multi-Agent Teams: Operational Allocation Without Accountability Blind Spots

Treat responsibility as a routing budget for execution, review, and exception handling

When several agents touch one decision, responsibility should be allocated explicitly rather than left implicit in logs or job titles. This article defines a practical responsibility vector for execution, review, approval, and human override. The goal is not to encode legal liability into a formula, but to prevent operational gaps where nobody owns the next action, the next check, or the next escalation.

team-designresponsibility-distributionautonomy-accountabilityallocation-functionsconservation-lawfail-closedgovernancezero-sum
Safety & GovernanceJanuary 24, 202624 min read

Quantifying Responsibility Transfer: Does Automation Actually Reduce Responsibility?

A formal model showing why AI adoption can create an illusion of reduced responsibility while outcome responsibility remains conserved

When organizations automate decisions, responsibility is often perceived as reduced. This paper separates execution responsibility from outcome responsibility, defines a formal transfer quantity `T(h->a)`, and derives a conservation result showing that total outcome responsibility stays in the human domain even as execution is automated.

responsibilityautomationgovernancemathematical-modelconservation-lawdecision-theory