Congressional Staffers Are So Lazy That They’re Using AI to Write New Laws

From lawyers getting caught citing hallucinated cases and major consulting firms generating nonsensical reports to teachers using AI to revise likely AI-generated essays from students, the tech has become practically ubiquitous. One particularly egregious example involved the office of representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL).

To Luna, it’s all in a day’s work when drafting a Congressional defense bill. Employees in both the House and the Senate are making liberal use of the tools, a terrifying new reality that could result in nonsensical language and hallucinations to slip into.

What Happened

That’s because there’s practically no oversight on Capitol Hill, as the WP points out. There haven’t been any instances of a staffer being formally disciplined for AI use specifically breaking a patchwork of lax rules, either.

• It also highlights just how little oversight there is on how the tech is used on Capitol Hill, suggesting federal regulations will likely remain a complete moot point for the time being.

• It’s the latest outcome of the Trump administration’s push to have every corner of the government adopt AI at all costs.

• While plenty of representatives have admitted to consulting chatbots for research, the real risk lies in aides using the tech largely unsupervised.

What Reports Say

Coverage of the story so far points to:

• Continued reporting by Futurism as more details emerge