\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\caption{Orthogonal descriptive axes and governance risks (abridged).}
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\toprule
\textbf{OPT} & \textbf{Primary Risks} & \textbf{Assurance Focus} \\
\midrule
\Lrn & Data leakage, reward hacking & Data governance, OOD tests, calibration \\
\Evo & Fitness misspecification & Proxy validation, replicates, constraints \\
\Sym & Rule brittleness, KB inconsistency & Provenance, formal verification \\
\Prb & Miscalibration, inference bias & Posterior predictive checks \\
\Sch & Heuristic inadmissibility & Optimality proofs, heuristic diagnostics \\
\Ctl & Instability, unmodeled dynamics & Stability margins, robustness \\
\Swm & Emergent instability & Swarm invariants, safety envelopes \\
\bottomrule
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\label{tab:OPT-risk}
\end{table}