Description: A staffer in Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's office reportedly used Claude to prepare a summary for an amendment to the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act and accidentally pasted chatbot transcript residue, including a timestamp and "Claude responded:" marker, into the public House Rules Committee record. The summary was reportedly later corrected. Luna confirmed that her staff used Claude for the summary, not to draft the amendment itself.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Large language model developers , Chatbot developers and Anthropic developed an AI system deployed by Office of Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and Congressional staffers, which harmed General public of the United States , General public , Epistemic integrity and Congressional public records.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Large language models , Congressional publishing workflows , Claude and Chatbots
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1641
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2026-06-24
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says her staff used AI for "spellcheck" in an amendment summary for a major defense bill, but denies it was used for the bill text itself and says "NO Legislation is ever drafted with AI."
Luna issued the respo…
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The amendment was one of hundreds filed this summer to an annual defense bill making its way through Congress. Along with her proposed change, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's office had sent a summary of what it would do.
But the first line made n…
Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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