AI-Drafted Congressional Bills Increase Error Rate
House lawyers are spending more time correcting AI draft errors as congressional staffers increasingly use chatbots for legislative text, officials said.
- More representatives' offices are using AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude to write legislative proposals, forcing lawyers at the House Office of Legislative Counsel to spend more time rewriting submissions than drafting from scratch.
- AI-Generated proposals often contain incorrect citations, wrong terms, and missed nuances causing significant legislative errors. Because staffers rely on these tools, they reportedly are not forced to learn the issues as deeply as manual drafting requires.
- Wade Ballou, who headed the office for almost 10 years until 2024, said AI cannot determine whether a pot of money should be a "tax credit, tax deduction, tax exclusion or a grant." Sometimes it misidentifies the 50 states, excluding tribal nations.
- To manage increasing workload, the OLC is exploring AI to "improve efficiencies." A working group within the House Office developed Comparative Print Suite, an AI tool helping staffers visualize how legislative proposals change current laws.
- Unlike general AI tools, Comparative Print Suite returns an error if it cannot determine where changes should be made. They prevent hallucinations from entering draft bills, ensuring greater accuracy than publicly available AI systems.
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AI-drafted bills take longer to fix than to write
Congressional staffers and outside groups are using Claude and ChatGPT to draft legislation. The lawyers who check that work cannot keep up. Owen Dahlkamp reported the strain on the House Office of Legislative Counsel for Politico on Monday. He drew on interviews with eight current and former officials who work or have worked with the […] This story continues at The Next Web
AI-written bills riddled with errors flooding US Congress – Politico
Congressional lawyers are reportedly spending more time fixing some chatbot-written bills than it would take to draft them from scratch US congressional lawyers are struggling with a flood of error-ridden AI-generated legislation, forcing them to spend increasingly more time rewriting proposals produced by chatbots, Politico reported on Monday. Staffers and outside groups have more frequently...
US Congress struggles to cope with AI-generated errors - PoliticoMore and more US congressional staffers are relying on generative AI to draft legislation. But it's also leading to errors.
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