Your Representative is Now a Prompt Engineer

It’s official: AI has entered the hallowed halls of American legislation. While we used to worry about lobbyists writing laws, we now have to worry about a Large Language Model writing them based on a prompt like "make a tax law that sounds fair but secretly benefits my three largest donors in the Midwest." The efficiency is staggering. What used to take six months of committee hearings and bipartisan bickering can now be generated in four seconds by an AI that doesn’t even have a law degree. Of course, the AI has a habit of "hallucinating" legal precedents, which is actually an improvement over politicians who just lie about them. We are approaching a legislative "singularity" where bills are so long and complex that no human can read them, written by an AI that doesn’t understand them, to be voted on by representatives who are too busy filming TikToks to care. The scary part isn't that the AI is writing the laws; it’s that the AI is starting to realize that the US tax code is just a very poorly written "if-then" statement. If this continues, the 2028 election won't be about policy; it will be about who has the best "Custom Instructions" for the government's central server.