Does any country actually use AI to govern right now?
Yes, in different ways. China uses AI-driven social credit and surveillance systems to monitor and score citizen behavior, an authoritarian model. Estonia uses AI more narrowly to automate bureaucratic services like tax filing and digital ID, a consent-based efficiency model. They represent opposite ends of the same technology.
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