Aug 20, 2026 · 3 min · 5 segments
If human reviewers fade away and government work product is AI-produced, who will be held responsible for when things go wrong?
Charles BlainHost
It attached the project number, which was E21-00-00-X027, and it mixed in real consultant names and dollar figures and real channel measurements.
But K124 and E121 were different projects, and the employee corrected the project number.
Copilot thanked them and then repeated the same White Oak information under the K124 label.
Despite relabeling the mistake, I found no evidence that this wrong pairing reached a final government work product, but it does show the mechanism of failure that comes into play.
The broader flood control production I received through a Texas Public Information request contained four thousand fifty five records across seventeen categories of governance records requested.
Eleven were not found in production, three were partial, two were pro- produced, and one could not be determined.
It attached the project number, which was E21-00-00-X027, and it mixed in real consultant names and dollar figures and real channel measurements.
But K124 and E121 were different projects, and the employee corrected the project number.
Copilot thanked them and then repeated the same White Oak information under the K124 label.
Despite relabeling the mistake, I found no evidence that this wrong pairing reached a final government work product, but it does show the mechanism of failure that comes into play.
The broader flood control production I received through a Texas Public Information request contained four thousand fifty five records across seventeen categories of governance records requested.
Eleven were not found in production, three were partial, two were pro- produced, and one could not be determined.
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