AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surface of Compliance Design

arXiv:2604.21103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Governments are increasingly interested in using AI to make administrative decisions cheaper, more scalable, and more consistent. But for probabilistic AI to be incorporated into public administration it must be embedded in a compliance layer that makes decisions reviewable, repeatable, and legally defensible. That layer can improve oversight by making departures from law easier to detect. But it can also create a stable approval boundary that poli