AI Governance Is Not a Compliance Exercise. It Is an Institutional Capacity Question.

When a government deploys AI without cross-institutional alignment, the consequences are different from a company doing the same. Public trust erodes. Accountability gaps widen. Decisions that affect millions get made by systems that nobody in the chain of command fully understands.

AI governance is not a compliance exercise. It's an institutional capacity question. Do the people making decisions understand what these systems do? Do the structures around them enable accountability? Can those structures endure over the long term? These aren't technical questions.

They're the questions that determine whether AI strengthens or weakens public institutions.