Full credit for the article and core ideas: Víctor Jesús Hernández Salinas. Editorial adaptation for interAlcaldes based on his text “The Paradox of Automation.” The great promise of automation was simple, produce more, decide faster, and reduce errors. But Víctor Jesús Hernández Salinas’ warning is more uncomfortable—and precisely for that reason, more valuable, the more we delegate critical functions to digital systems, the more fragile our institutions can become when te