Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is pushing back on claims that artificial intelligence was used to draft legislative language for a major defense bill, saying her staff relied on AI only for “spellcheck” in an amendment summary. She insisted the actual bill text was not generated by AI, writing that “NO Legislation is ever drafted with AI.”
The clarification came after users on X circulated screenshots of a summary tied to an amendment for the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act. The text appeared to include an AI prompt artifact, reading in part: “Identical to H.R. 100 (118th Congress).11:25 AM????Claude responded: Requires the Secretary of Defense to designate Department of Defense activities, support, and operations at the southwest land border as a named operation with…”
Luna’s initial explanation appeared to suggest that Claude, an AI chatbot, had been used on amendment text. In her first post, she wrote that “staff used AI to correct a draft text and didn’t edit,” adding, “Not a shocker. Most staff use it. I have told them to make sure they are double checking and more thorough.” As speculation grew on X that her office was using AI to write legislation, Luna revised her response to be more specific: “Yeah my staff used AI to spell/grammar check the amendment SUMMARY, not the actual amendment text itself,” the post now says.
She later reinforced that point in a follow-up post, writing: “FYI NO Legislation is ever drafted with AI. All bill text from the House comes from the House Legislative Council which is prohibited from using AI. The screenshot you’re referencing is an AI summary of the bill that’s also used for spellcheck, cmon man 🤣”.
