When I was in government, I liked to think about it as a massive information processing machine, but basically all the wires were broken and sometimes the cogs and wheels all hated each other. Obviously you just want to ask the machine a question and get an answer. You don't want to have to think about the wires and cogs and wheels! Or which ones have how much power! And that's for someone *inside* government. Then imagine being on the outside. It was ~2020 and GPT-3 had just come out. I ran around telling people this was how we were all going to do government from now on. I simulated some war games and some generals' eyes went wide. I would put quotes from GPT-3 in notes to the Prime Minister. I called up the digital service and they ~sort of laughed at the time, but kindly went along with it when I told them to form a team and work on it with me. I mostly left feeling like we should just scrap it all and rebuild a country around post-2020 technology. I'm fairly confident that the governments that do that will win.