Thoughts

When Federal Agencies Pick AI Vendors, They Are Buying Different Policy Interpretations↗

When a government agency swaps one AI vendor for another, it may also change what the system notices, downplays, or misses. Drawing on research benchmarking commercial LLMs against a rubric-calibrated policy-analysis framework across five dimensions, we found that model choice systematically shapes what a policy appears to be about — with some models collapsing complex bills into a single dominant category. The takeaway: agencies should document which model and version they use, how they prompt it, and what validation they run.