Brief

A new academic paper introduces the concept of the "Accountability Horizon," proposing an impossibility theorem for governing human-agent AI collectives. The research demonstrates that beyond a certain computable threshold of autonomy, existing legal, ethical, and regulatory accountability frameworks become mathematically impossible to satisfy. This is due to the inherent structure of human-AI interaction, particularly feedback cycles, which prevent full responsibility allocation. The paper suggests that while current accountability models are valid below this horizon, new distributed mechanisms will be necessary for more autonomous systems. AI