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Equipped with models and agents, citizens could bring government to a halt
Citizens use AI to automate complaints and appeals, creating a compliance deluge that breaks legacy government infrastructure. This exposes a critical governance risk: automation at scale reveals how unprepared institutions are for modern citizen demand volume.
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The people-versus-state arms race

Several influential policy papers are failing AI detectors

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State legislators love using chatbots

New research shows it is being used for good and ill