The AI Mirror

For twenty years, your data has been a mess. You know it. I know it. Every PM who's ever looked for the final budget knows it. 

But it never really mattered. Because humans were doing the interpretation, making the mess tolerable and ultimately invisible. Construction quite literally runs on tribal knowledge layered over top of broken systems. 

But then AI showed up and it asked to read the data. All of a sudden, the emperor has no clothes.