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Politico: AI-Drafted Bills Are Swamping the House Office of Legislative Counsel

By Alexis Dufresne Published August 18, 2026 at 09:30 UTC

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Politico reports the House Office of Legislative Counsel now spends more time fixing AI-drafted bills than it would take to write them from scratch, per eight current and former officials. Staffers are pasting output from Claude and ChatGPT into draft legislation, including a June amendment from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna that left the phrase 'Claude responded' in the text. Ari Hershowitz calls it 'a guaranteed way of introducing thousands of bugs into our legal system.'

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