Investigation Launched Into RFK Jr. Using AI To Write MAHA Report

House Oversight Committee Democrats are investigating HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for using AI to write his MAHA report after he fired health experts.

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RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again report had all the signs of being written by AI. There were citations to studies that didn’t exist, and links that went back to OpenAI. The report itself was shoddily prepared, full of errors, and apparently had not been reviewed or fact-checked by anyone.

House Oversight Committee Democrats want answers.

In a letter to RFK Jr., House Oversight Committee ranking member Stephen Lynch wrote:

I write with serious concerns about the report recently released by the White House titled “The MAHA Report: Make Our Children Healthy Again” (the Report). Despite the Report’s insistence on “pursuing truth” and “embracing science,”1 public reporting has revealed that the Report cites scientific studies that do not exist, misrepresents the findings of certain studies, and may have used artificial intelligence (AI) to draw conclusions that are not based on actual scientific research.

Given your history of promoting medical misinformation and conspiracy theories, I am concerned that the Report—which you oversaw as Chair of President Trump’s Make America Healthy Again Commission—manipulates and falsifies science to advance President Trump’s political objectives. To understand the ways that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may have used AI to sidestep scientific and academic rigor in drafting the Report, I demand information about the process by which the Report was drafted, reviewed, published, and later amended.

Since the Report’s publication on May 23, 2025, public reporting has revealed that several of the Report’s citations were to studies that do not exist or which were not published by the author listed in the citation. In some instances, the Report cited to studies purportedly written by academics who have never published on the topic at hand. Even when the Report correctly cited scientific studies, authors of many of those studies stated that the Report inaccurately summarized or misrepresented the findings of those studies. These are all common errors when AI is used for scientific research.

Other evidence of the use of AI in drafting the Report include the many broken links in the Report’s citations, and the fact that some citations included “oaicite” in the URLs—referring to the artificial intelligence company OpenAI and indicating that the research was collected using AI.

It appears that the Administration is already trying to cover up its shoddy work.