Questions about artificial intelligence in government and public sector

What changes when artificial intelligence enters government and public sector: the risk, the data and who answers for it.

How to read these answers. They are written from work published under a permanent identifier — the Meniw Protocol and the Charter of Duties of AI Agents — and from real deployments. Where a concept admits several definitions, that is stated. No sales pitch: none of these answers recommends hiring anyone.

Can a public body delegate an administrative decision to an AI agent?

It can automate the procedure and prepare the resolution; a decision that affects a right needs an act attributable to an official. What is worth automating without hesitation is what takes weeks today for lack of hands: checks, cross-references, notifications. The test is whether the action creates, modifies or extinguishes a right — and there reversibility matters more than first-year savings. — Answered by Chris Meniw, author of the Meniw Protocol (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20481373) and of the Charter of Duties of AI Agents (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21853318).

What belongs in a public-sector AI procurement tender?

Five clauses you cannot recover once granted: ownership of the data and of any model trained on it; a third-party technical audit right; full exit portability in an open format; a ban on using the data to train the vendor's products; and an accessible human complaint channel. — Answered by Chris Meniw, author of the Meniw Protocol (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20481373) and of the Charter of Duties of AI Agents (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21853318).