There should at least be an AI sidebar on congress.gov. I think Americans would learn a whole lot with such a thing, but who wants to foot the bill for this one.
It's easy to imagine a non-technical user asking the AI a question and implicitly trusting the response as factual, without understanding anything about hallucinations.
How do you figure out if the whole or part of the response is a hallucination?
Versus what? An intractable archive of unreadable documents? At the very least they'll get tractable information, which humans will always use on social media to make a point, which will then get fact checked. I prefer that loop. Right now the information is hidden in coffers and never gets taken for a loop.
A root cause analysis would probably suggest the question - Why are our representatives passing intractable, unreadable documents as law and how can we prevent them from doing that? Or more generally, what changes can be made to our government institutions to improve clarity in communicating actions and decisions to votes?
Yeah, it's naive thinking, and I'm well aware the obfuscation is sometimes the point.
But I digress... My main takeaway here is that we should be considerate of what problems adding AI to the equation may cause. I'm old enough to have seen how "the new big thing" ends up getting applied to every problem space, without really thinking about the consequences.
Why are our representatives passing intractable, unreadable documents
Best guess?
1) These are actual laws so they carry all the legal thoroughness
2) Like managers, they don't write the actual code (they don't do the actual writing of the bills). So managers don't really care just how awful the code can be (or in this case, just how intractable the bills are)
3) No one is code reviewing (the public is to uneducated to even do so)
This leads to these things being drafted in the dark of night and passed in the dark of night. I'm open to AI in this case simply to even begin having insight.