AI-induced demand is overwhelming bureaucracies built for the analogue age—from Dutch municipal-tax appeals to the Canadian privacy regulator to parking-ticket tribunals in every major city. In Britain workers now ask large language models, rather than human lawyers, to help them sue their bosses quickly and cheaply. Claims have surged and backlogs grown. A case filed today may not be heard until 2030.

This is an example of a larger pattern: AI assistance breaks any human system which was designed for a world in which bureaucratic friction keeps volume manageable.

Turns out that's a whole lot of human systems.