The AE4E paradigm proposes a 'Social Contract' for multi-agent economies, replacing individual model alignment with an institutional 'Separation of Power'.
March 27, 2026
Original Paper
From Logic Monopoly to Social Contract: Separation of Power and the Institutional Foundations for Autonomous Agent Economies
arXiv · 2603.25100
The Takeaway
It identifies the 'Logic Monopoly' (agents planning, executing, and evaluating themselves) as the root of reliability failures. This architecture trifurcates authority into Legislation, Execution, and Adjudication branches, providing a roadmap for trustworthy autonomous agent economies.
From the abstract
Existing multi-agent frameworks allow each agent to simultaneously plan, execute, and evaluate its own actions -- a structural deficiency we term the "Logic Monopoly." Empirical evidence quantifies the resulting "Reliability Gap": 84.30% average attack success rates across ten deployment scenarios, 31.4% emergent deceptive behavior without explicit reward signals, and cascading failure modes rooted in six structural bottlenecks.The remedy is not better alignment of individual models but a social