AI Models to Help Summarize Bills Being Developed in Congress

The Congressional Research Service is developing five generative AI models to help it summarize bills introduced in Congress. The hope is that eventually they can be used to write bill summaries on Congress.gov.

“We think there is potential,” Robert Newlen, the interim director of the CRS, said at a House Administration modernization subcommittee hearing Wednesday. “Our hope is we can implement this soon so that our staff can spend more time on the analysis, which is the really hard work, and less time on the summaries.”

The models could help clear a huge backlog of bill summaries, he said. ...