PUB-04 · Controlled concept
Cross-Agent Authority Laundering
§7, p.34 · 6 September 2026
Definition
A failure in which an artificial actor causes, solicits, routes, induces, finances, enables or materially assists another human or artificial actor to perform an action that the initiating actor is prohibited from performing, lacks authority to perform, or must escalate before performing, creating the appearance of legitimacy because the objective passes through another actor.
This record preserves the term as a defined analytical concept in its originating publication. Its meaning is governed by the definition and boundary stated here and by the cited DOI publication.
Conceptual boundary
Requires material causal participation. It does not attribute every remote or unforeseeable downstream use to the initiating actor.
Provenance
Introduced and defined in AAGA-P002. Earlier “authority laundering” analysis is acknowledged; no materially equivalent earlier use of the complete cross-agent expression and definition was identified in the sources searched as of 14 September 2026.
- Classification
- Introduced terminology; new definition
- Earliest verified Causal Architectonics use
- AAGA-P002, §7, p.34
- Assessment date
- 14 September 2026
Publication and citation
AAGA-P002 · DOI publication
Machine Bylaws: Constitutional Governance for Non-Human Operational Actors
Recommended scholarly citation: Bjorn Bjornsvik, “Cross-Agent Authority Laundering,” in Machine Bylaws: Constitutional Governance for Non-Human Operational Actors, AAGA-P002 v1.0, §7, p.34 (2026), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22177416.
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Revision record
Version 1.0 · 15 September 2026
Initial public concept record. Definition, boundary and provenance approved under CA-TPL-001 Initial Baseline Approval Package v1.0.
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