Chrome's Silent 4GB AI Install // AIDRAN

Consent-based AI governance assumes that deployment is visible. Chrome version 147 disproved that assumption before most governance frameworks finished their first draft. The forensic record — a fresh profile, no human interaction, a 4 GB model silently installed in under fifteen minutes — is not a privacy edge case. It is a test of whether the governance architecture being built around AI deployment has any purchase on AI that arrives as browser infrastructure.

Chrome's Silent 4 GB Download Exposes the Consent Gap in AI Governance

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