Anna Paulina Luna Defends Claude AI Mistake In Bill Summary
Anna Paulina Luna Defends Claude AI Mistake In Bill Summary
Publish Date: 2026-06-24 15:35:00
Source Domain: www.forbes.com
Topline
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., on Wednesday defended her staff’s use of the AI chatbot Claude to help summarize an amendment to congressional legislation, claiming it was a widespread practice after screenshots circulated online showing a summary of the amendment mistakenly included a reference to the LLM.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., leaves the U.S. Capitol on January 15.
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Key Facts
Luna submitted an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which approves various policies and expenditures for the Department of Defense, and screenshots published online suggested the summary of the amendment had been copied and pasted from Claude.
“11:25 AM????Claude responded:” the original amendment summary read before launching into what the amendment said, as first posted online by Washington Post journalist John Hudson.
The website has since been updated to remove the reference to Claude, though it is still visible through a Google search.
The congresswoman defended the AI usage in a post on X, noting no AI was used to draft the actual legislation, and the screenshot referencing Claude is only an “AI summary of the bill,” adding, “c’mon man.”
All legislative text in Congress is drafted by the House’s Office of Legislative Counsel, which Luna noted is prohibited from using AI, so no AI tools were used in the drafting of the bill itself—only the summary of what the amendment said.
Luna also confirmed her staff’s use of Claude in a post on X that’s since been updated, writing her staff used Claude to edit the summary and mistakenly “didn’t edit,” adding “most” congressional staff use the AI tool and she told her staff “to make sure they are double checking and more thorough.”
What to Watch for
Luna’s amendment to the bill, if it’s approved, would direct Defense Department resources to the southwest border of the U.S. No other lawmakers have yet commented on the apparent mistake in the…
