Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is walking back screenshots that appeared to show Anthropic’s Claude being used to draft language for a defense funding amendment, saying the AI was only used to “spell/grammar check” an amendment summary.
The screenshots, which spread on X, showed text reading “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…” — part of an amendment summary for the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act.
Luna initially said staff “used AI to correct a draft text and didn’t edit,” then edited her post to clarify: “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 incident highlights how AI chatbots are increasingly showing up in places they shouldn’t be. Judges have caught lawyers using AI to draft legal filings with fake citations. A Brazilian city officials unknowingly approved an ordinance written with ChatGPT. Arizona state rep Alexander Kolodin has admitted using ChatGPT to write state legislation.
