AI integrated itself into essential services without public debate. Contracts embedded models in schools, hospitals, and city IT systems. The transition was subtle—dashboards, assistants, fraud detection—but irreversible once habits formed. This episode examines how adoption happened through procurement, not referendum, and how institutions traded resilience for optimization. When outages occur, there is no manual fallback. A city that never voted for AI wakes to find its systems cannot run without it.
Selenius Media & The Artificial Laboratory
