France's last AI-proof bastion: an administration immune to optimization
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-05
A French thread argues the last stronghold resisting AI in France will be its administration: CERFA forms, documents demanded ten times over, departments bouncing citizens between them. The millefeuille bureaucracy costs billions, yet each layer legitimizes the next. The core claim: bureaucracy has all but immunized itself against AI — you cannot rationalize a system whose complexity sustains those who manage it. AI can optimize intelligence but not absurdity; it can only delete it, which is exactly what the system will resist. IgorCarron shared it in agreement.
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