---
type: "Concept"
title: "UK public-sector implications"
description: "Roles, SLAs and liability shift as agents move from answering to acting."
tags: [theme, uk-government, governance]
generated: { by: human:crpage, at: 2026-07-09T09:44:00Z }
status: stable
---

The organisational impact exceeds the model-cost impact. Roles shift: API owners become capability owners; IAM teams become delegation-and-trust teams; platform teams own registries, policy engines and observability; assurance functions need evidence standards. New SLAs cover specification freshness, token-issuance latency, sandbox fidelity, policy-evaluation availability and trace completeness. **Liability** shifts from *what did the model know?* to *which principal delegated authority, under which policy, using which contract version, with what consent and audit trail?* — which is why [provenance](../../stack/observability-and-provenance.md), policy separation and [zero trust](../../standards/zero-trust.md) become load-bearing. Transparency obligations include the [ATRS](../../uk-government/atrs.md).

# Terms
Glossary terms used here: [Audit trail](../../glossary/audit-trail.md), [Consent](../../glossary/consent.md), [Provenance](../../glossary/provenance.md).