the-responsibility-vacuum-organizational-failure

name	the-responsibility-vacuum-organizational-failure
title	The Responsibility Vacuum: Organizational Failure in Scaled Agent Systems
version	0.0.2
engine	skillxiv-v0.0.2-claude-opus-4.6
license	MIT
url	https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15059
keywords	["Agent"]
description	Modern CI/CD pipelines integrating agent-generated code exhibit a structural failure in responsibility attribution. Decisions are executed through formally correct approval processes, yet no entity possesses both the authority to approve those decisions and the epistemic capacity to meaningfully understand their basis. We define this condition as responsibility vacuum: a state in which decisions occur, but responsibility cannot be attributed because authority and verification capacity do not coi...