Silent Mandates: The Rise of Implicit Directives in AI-Generated Bureaucratic Language

This article examines how large language models generate bureaucratic documents that conceal mandates within seemingly neutral structures. Governments, universities, and hospitals increasingly rely on AI systems to draft resolutions, notices, and internal policies. Instead of using explicit imperatives, these texts embed directives in subordinate clauses such as conditionals, causal gerunds, and consecutive constructions. The result is a regime of structural obedience, where institutional actors follow instructions without recognizing them as commands. Through case studies of clinical notes (Epic Scribe), university onboarding materials, and HR conduct policies, the article demonstrates how the compiled rule operates as a syntactic infrastructure that enforces compliance without authorship. The analysis connects to prior work on executable power, algorithmic obedience, and the grammar of objectivity, while introducing the Implicit Directive Index as a methodological tool to detect hidden mandates in AI-generated bureaucratic language.