KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS The verification AI is cheap, narrow, and fallible, and the design is built around exactly those properties. It is asked only to do the bounded, high-volume classification it does well, escalate what it does not, defer consequential judgement to humans, and submit to public audit and external cross-checks. The framework’s strength is that it does not require the AI to be more than it is. That settles the foundations. The mechanism, the engine, the institution, the stack, the economics, the template, and an honest account of what the technology can and cannot do are now all in place. Everything in Part One has been argued in the abstract, one machine described in general terms. Part Two does the opposite: it puts that single machine to work on seven specific civic outcomes, one chapter each, in the same order every time, so that the claim at the heart of this book, that it is genuinely one machine and not seven, can be judged against the evidence rather than taken on trust. 105