Could AI write our laws next? - Marketplace

The U.S. Congress is not usually what we think of as the leading edge of innovation. In fact, the legislative body's collective lack of technological proficiency is often pointed to as a liability when it comes to regulating new tech. But lawmakers in Washington and around the country have increasingly been turning to software to help them write and analyze legislation. Mohar Chatterjee is a computational journalist at Politico who recently covered the issue, and she says there's pretty much just one program lawmakers all use: LegisPro. Marketplace's Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Chatterjee about what this process looks like in practice.