How to Use AI Prompt Engineering to Decode the Big Beautiful Bill

In an age where legislative overreach can be buried under hundreds of pages of legalese, artificial intelligence isn’t just a tool for efficiency—it’s a weapon for transparency. One of the most powerful techniques available to citizens, journalists, and watchdogs alike is prompt engineering: crafting precise instructions for large language models (LLMs) to extract meaning, contradiction, and bias from dense legislative texts. And there may be no better proving ground for this than the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill."

What Is the Big Beautiful Bill?

Officially titled H.R.1 - 119th Congress, this bill has garnered both praise and outrage for its sweeping scope. Yet many Americans don’t know what it actually says, what rights it may affect, or who stands to benefit. And that’s by design. Bills like this are often passed under the radar, cloaked in legal language that resists casual reading.

Why Use Prompt Engineering?

The complexity of modern legislation makes manual analysis time-consuming and error-prone. But with properly crafted prompts, you can direct an AI to:

• Identify contradictions with the U.S. Constitution or Bill of Rights

• Surface clauses that undermine civil liberties

• Reveal patterns of political overreach

• Trace legal precedents and historical context

This is where prompt engineering becomes more than just clever wordplay—it becomes an act of civic defense. Don't take my word for it, go grab a copy of the bill for yourself directly from the Congress website at https://congress.gov so you don't have any propaganda or disinformation/misinformation to contend with:

https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr1/BILLS-119hr1eh.pdf

Try This Prompt:

So, now that you've downloaded the pdf, get yourself over to ChatGPT, or whichever your favourite LLM sits, upload the PDF of the bill and

If you want to extract constitutional insight from the Big Beautiful Bill, here’s a prompt you can use:

"Behaving like a tenured professor of constitutional law at Harvard, Yale, Stanford or Columbia and an expert on the Bill of Rights and political overreach, I want you to analyze this bill (attached) for any clauses, sections or subsections that seem to be in legal contradiction of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and seek to undermine, dilute or dissolve language in the Constitution that the U.S. President swore to uphold and protect by taking office. I want you to be careful to read the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and this bill in full, no hallucination or speculation, and I want you to cite all legal precedents to support your position. Additionally, I want you to share your inference chain that led to your conclusion so it can be independently verified by an investigative reporter to follow up on it."

Why This Works

This isn’t just a prompt—it’s a lens. You're instructing the model to:

• Assume the mindset and precision of a legal scholar

• Avoid hallucination and speculative claims

• Cite constitutional precedent

• Be accountable to a third-party reviewer (a journalist)

These constraints help filter out fluff and bias while anchoring the model in verifiable truth.

Alethean.ai: Clarity as a Service At Alethean.ai, this is exactly the kind of civic clarity we stand for. We build AI systems that think critically, speak truthfully, and surface what others try to obscure. In a world where information warfare is real, truth needs armor—and AI can be that armor, when used with care.

Take Action

Want to understand what’s really in the Big Beautiful Bill? Don’t take someone else’s word for it. Download the PDF. Use the prompt. Follow the inference chain. And decide for yourself.

Clarity uncovered. Truth defended. That’s Alethean.ai.