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🔆 When Governments Become AI-First
AI's growing role in government, newly blocked bots, and the most relevant satirical startup.
Allegra Guinan & Emma G Moller
July 03, 2025
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🗞️ Issue 77 // ⏱️ Read Time: 7 min
In this week's newsletter
What we’re talking about: The growing adoption of AI tools by government agencies and officials worldwide, moving beyond policy frameworks to actual daily implementation across defense, intelligence, and public services.
How it’s relevant: Governments globally are heavily invested in exploring AI technologies, driven by both the opportunity to improve citizens' lives and the inherent risk of falling behind other nations in this critical field.
Why it matters: AI has profound potential to reshape public services, national security, economic landscapes, and international relations, while introducing complex ethical, societal, and geopolitical challenges that will ripple through every system.
Hello 👋
If you’ve ever stood in line to renew your driver's license or waited weeks for a permit from a local government agency, you’re aware of how outdated some government systems can be. The idea to use AI to streamline these processes and provide more efficient services to citizens sounds like a no-brainer.
But when we talk about the rise of AI adoption in government, it’s not only digitizing backlogs of analog documents and deploying public-facing chatbots on government websites. It’s also intelligence gathering and threat detection, cybersecurity, autonomous weapons systems, and more.
These aren’t trivial use cases; the stakes are high and the risks are higher.