# Trump fought unelected bureaucrats. Now they’re being coded into immortality

> Source: <https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4714574/trump-government-ai-policy-reversibility/>
> Published: 2026-09-08 14:00:00+00:00

President [Donald Trump’s](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump) administration scored a quiet [diplomatic](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/diplomacy) win this week. G20 innovation ministers reached consensus on the Carolina Principles for Emerging Technologies, endorsing pro-innovation policy frameworks, foundational research, commercialization, and trusted deployment. The instinct is sound: Washington should not treat every new technology as an excuse to build another regulator.

But as government itself [adopts AI](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/artificial-intelligence), there is a prior democratic question: If voters can replace an administration, can its successor also replace the automated policies it leaves behind?

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