Lawmakers Find a New Legislative Assistant: Artificial Intelligence

Dozens of members told NOTUS they use some kind of AI regularly and 19 offices use a paid version of ChatGPT.

ChatGPT logo seen on the App Store.
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Members of Congress typically aren’t the tech savviest bunch, but dozens of lawmakers say artificial intelligence is now a part of their life.

“It’s good for research,” Republican Rep. Mark Alford of Missouri told NOTUS of X’s Grok. “And I say, ‘Please cite your sources.’ As a former journalist, it’s very important to me to have sources.”

“I use it as I use a calculator. I’m not a mathematician, and I’m not a researcher either,” Alford added. He said he recently used Grok to help him get up to speed for a congressional hearing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “I’m hip, for a 61-year-old guy,” he said.