When a government ministry drafts a policy brief with a foreign large language model, when a schoolchild receives homework explanations shaped by training data collected far from home, and when a public portal answers citizens in…
When a confident answer arrives in seconds, the mind relaxes. That relief can feel like knowledge. Often it is only certainty we have borrowed — and the vigilance we owe our own judgements is what we risk losing.
Government AI systems often become permanent by inertia: pilots harden into infrastructure without a scheduled decision to continue. Drawing on the legislative idea of sunset clauses, this policy essay argues that significant…