MPs actively use AI to submit spam amendments to 2026 budget draft – committee chair
Technological development, especially artificial intelligence (AI), is one of the reasons for the surge in amendments to the state budget draft, posing a challenge compounded by the traditional submission of expenditure-increasing amendments without specified funding sources, Budget Committee Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Roksolana Pidlasa stated in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
The Chair of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada Budget Committee, Roksolana Pidlasa, has highlighted the concerning trend of artificial intelligence (AI) being actively utilized by Members of Parliament (MPs) to submit spam amendments to the 2026 state budget draft. This surge in amendments, which has reached a record 3,339 in the past 19 years, is being facilitated by the rapid deployment capabilities of AI tools like Claude or Gemini.
These AI-generated amendments, indistinguishable from those drafted by human assistants, can be produced in mere minutes, whereas traditionally, it would have taken assistants days and nights to write similar volumes of amendments. Pidlasa pointed out that while AI has expedited the submission process, the amendments still require manual processing by human officials rather than further AI intervention.
However, the use of AI has not led to MPs seeking realistic sources of additional revenue to balance their expenditure increases. Often, these proposed increases lack any coverage in terms of revenue generation. Many amendments for additional expenditures are submitted without any substantiated funding sources, or they merely propose future VAT revenue increases without detailing how that growth will materialize.
Pidlasa concluded that this year's legislative actions mirror past trends, with MPs eager to propose spending but lacking concrete ideas for funding.
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