The tracking system that flagged AI regulation this week was not wrong to fire — it was right about the category and wrong about the referent. Governance, institutional legitimacy, and state power were all in motion: Trump's confrontations with the Supreme Court over judicial deference, Malaysia's repudiation of a US trade agreement, NATO allies refusing to commit ships to the Strait of Hormuz. These are precisely the thematic neighbors of AI policy debates. The machinery caught the conceptual proximity and logged a signal. But the source records contain no substantive…