Economist Sami Mahroum argues that although governments are adopting AI to improve efficiency, the technology may paradoxically slow decision-making because human attention is finite and expanded machine capabilities create new oversight bottlenecks. He illustrates the problem through the US court system, where the share of federal lawsuits filed without a lawyer rose from an 11% average (2005-2022) to 16.8% in 2025, and the share of federal civil complaints containing AI-written text rose from 1% in 2023 to 18% by 2026, overwhelming human reviewers.