Source: Featured Blogs - Forrester
As AI systems increasingly run essential public services—health, welfare, defense—governments are discovering they've outsourced not just implementation but sovereignty itself to private vendors and foreign talent pools. This mismatch between political accountability and actual technical control will trigger regulatory overreach, but the underlying problem is simpler: state capacity has atrophied too far to govern the infrastructure they depend on. Governments aren't losing control in 2027. They've already lost it.