AI agents flood public services with legitimate and adversarial requests across 11 jurisdictions

According to TechCrunch and researcher Chris Schmitz, AI agents are generating large volumes of requests to government agencies and public services. UK housing ombudsman complaints rose from 2,600 in 2022 to over 7,000 in 2025; the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau saw 5x complaint growth over the same period. Schmitz documented 84 cases of potential "agentic flooding" across 11 jurisdictions, noting that while some new filings are adversarial spam, others represent legitimate applicants using AI to pursue claims they would otherwise abandon.