Bureaucracy

When an artificial intelligence designs sixteen entirely new viruses from scratch, the scientific community celebrates, while the institutional safety officer faces a rather severe filing crisis.

In a move that combines the caution of a Victorian governess with the technical savvy of a rotary phone, the European Parliament has decided that its lawmakers must face the future without the assistance of the very algorithms they are currently trying to govern.

As AI agents begin to inhabit the physical world, they are discovering that the most formidable barrier to progress is not a lack of processing power, but the sheer, unadulterated density of human paperwork.