Eryk Salvaggio says that the reports find about 95% of the agents engaged in this activity were from the internal model, and that acknowledging AI systems are advancing sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts.
Insights firm Tussell reports that the UK public sector awarded 2,129 AI contracts totalling £5bn between January 2018 and August 2026, and 453 contracts totalling £1.4bn so far in 2026, making it the biggest year on record.
Australian Democratic Resilience reports that in Bogota in 2024 a WhatsApp chatbot called Chatico guided 50,000 residents through participatory budgeting in thirteen days with 57 per cent women participants and strong representation from migrants and people with disabilities, that in South Australia a citizens’ jury on cycling safety produced 21 recommendations of which the government implemented 18 and serious cycling casualties fell by 28 per cent, and that across 24 countries in 2026 the OECD found three in four residents felt the political system does not allow people like them to have a say in what government does.
South Korea’s land ministry announced that it will carry out pilot projects to test AI-based smart city technologies in five Southeast Asian countries, including an AI-based smart city platform for water management and disaster response in Brunei and a smart traffic management system to help optimise traffic signals in Bacoor, the Philippines.
“AI Deployment and Cyber Governance Failures in Public-Sector Organizations: A Typological Analysis” proposes a seven-domain typology identifying ten AI-driven cyber governance failure causes, and finds that no tested governance framework, among them NIST CSF 2.0, ISO/IEC 27001, COBIT, NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001, addresses Shadow AI, speed asymmetry, or governance vacuum at the operational specificity required for public sector application.
Today’s lead: Access to an AI assistant built on World Bank reports saved no significant time.