The Make America Healthy Again report shows how AI can undermine the US Official Record, and democracy

In May, the White House’s Make America Healthy Again commission published the Make Our Children Healthy Again report, which was then found to contain references to non-existent and hallucinated sources, strong markers that some content was created by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools. Peter Finn writes that the use of AI tools in reports such as this one cast doubt on the truth of the US Official Record – the material created from the operations of a government. This in turn, he suggests, could undermine the formulation and implementation of evidence-based policies and potentially ultimately undermine US democracy.