The congresswoman denies that staffers used artificial intelligence to write the defense funding amendment

Rep. Ana Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) says her staff used AI to “spell-check” an amendment summary for a major defense bill, but denies its use in the text of the bill itself and says, “No legislation has ever been drafted using AI.”

Luna issued a response after the accounts on X He started sharing screenshots Summary of the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2027. It reads: “Conforming to H.R. 100 (118th Congress). 11:25 AM ???? Claude responded: Requests the Secretary of Defense to designate Department of Defense activities, support, and operations on the Southwest Land Border as a designated operation with…”

At first, Luna’s response seemed to indicate that Claude had been used to edit the text. “Staff used artificial intelligence to correct the draft text and did not edit it,” her post said. “It’s not shocking. Most employees use it. I’ve asked them to make sure they double-check and be more thorough,” Luna added. After X users began speculating that its employees were using the technology to write invoices, Luna She modified her response: “Yes, the staff used AI to check the spelling/grammar of the edit summary, not the actual edit text itself,” her post now says.

I followed The matter is with another: “FYI, no legislation has ever been drafted using AI. All of the House bill text comes from the House Legislature which is prohibited from using AI. The screenshot you are referring to is the AI ​​summary of the bill which is also used for spell checking, man 🤣.”