Book cover titled 'Fragile Systems' by Micah Gaudet, featuring a potted plant sprout illustration and subtitle 'An Ecological Approach to AI in Government.'

coming 07.01.25

"This is not a book about transformation.

It is a book about staying alive."

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“The real risk with AI is not malfunction. It is misalignment.”

This book challenges the assumption that adopting AI is a matter of finding the right tools. Instead, it argues that local governments must treat AI not as a product to install, but as a powerful new presence entering a living civic ecosystem. Drawing on ecological thinking, the book reframes AI adoption as a relational and systemic challenge—one that affects trust, discretion, culture, and the pace of public life. It’s not a manual or a roadmap, but a series of provocations and questions designed to help public leaders govern with more clarity, humility, and care in an era of intelligent systems.