Inside the dark factory: What AI software development can tell us about how agents will change government

Government is an information system, from election and taxation to delivery and enforcement. That means it's going to be radically transformed by agentic AI. Agents aren't a cure-all, and there are many ways they won't work, but whether through the public service embracing AI or through citizens building the services their government fails to deliver, change is coming.

In this session, developer, mischief-maker and Chaotic Good hacker Harper Reed shares lessons from his work building and experimenting with AI and explores how those lessons can apply to modern government.