Federal AI Portal Creates Vendor Lock-In

A single federal AI front end that routes citizens to many agency services can concentrate trust and data flows into a small set of commercial model providers. That concentration creates practical dependencies (APIs, billing, model behavior) and single points for surveillance, outages, or political pressure if the government relies on external large models to perform core public functions. — Shows how digital modernization can trade bureaucratic fragmentation for vendor dependence and new governance, accountability, and resilience problems that deserve public debate and policy safeguards.