CPA Parliamentary Academy
67th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference

CPC Workshop B: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Parliamentary Processes and Practices - Opportunities and Challenges

About the Workshop

CPC Workshop B: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Parliamentary Processes and Practices - Opportunities and Challenges

How can Parliaments embrace Artificial Intelligence in their processes and practices?

Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly prominent role across society, whether in our personal lives, in our professional spaces or across institutions. This brings multiple opportunities for increased productivity and the outsourcing of repetitive, mundane tasks whilst also carrying risks around security and reliability of the AI systems and models we choose to use. With Legislatures increasingly exploring the potential of AI in parliamentary processes and practices, it is important that these opportunities and challenges are robustly evaluated and challenged by all involved stakeholders.

This workshop on 'The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Parliamentary Processes and Practices - Opportunities and Challenges' will provide the space to discuss these challenges and will include use cases from Parliaments that have introduced AI tools into their methods of working, including from Parliaments outside of the Commonwealth.

Participants will be invited to give consideration to how AI could be best integrated within their own Legislature and to share any case studies where it already has been or is in the process of being incorporated. Participants will also be encouraged to share any concerns they may have around introducing AI in their respective institutions.

Panellists

CPC Workshop B: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Parliamentary Processes and Practices - Opportunities and Challenges
Chair: Hon. Hany Hui Bin Soh, MP (Singapore)

Hany Soh has been a Member of Parliament for Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC (Woodgrove division) serving alongside Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, Senior Minister of State for Defence and Manpower Zaqy Mohamed and Mayor Alex Yam since 2020. She serves as a Government Parliamentary Committee (“GPC”) Member in the Ministries of: (i) Digital Development and Information (“MDDI”); (ii) Culture, Community and Youth; and (iii) Sustainability and the Environment. She is also the Head of Policy for the Women’s Wing of the People’s Action Party.


As a MDDI GPC Member, she has contributed towards tabling a motion in the Parliament earlier this year to reaffirm Singapore’s commitment to adopt a whole-of-nation approach to build an inclusive and safe digital society. In October 2024, she participated in the Parliamentary debate on the Elections (Integrity of Online Advertising) (Amendment) Bill in support of safeguarding the integrity of the electoral process and preserving space for fair and legitimate political discourse during the elections, ensuring that electoral outcomes should not be influenced by harmful digitally generated and manipulated content such as deepfakes.


Ms Soh is also an Advocate & Solicitor, specializing in Family Law as well as Conveyancing and Real Estate Practice. As part of her legal profession, she serves as the Chairperson of the Law Society Pro Bono Services’ Community Legal Clinics Committee.

Senator Hon. Rosemary Moodie (Canada Federal)

The Honourable Rosemary Moodie is an independent Senator representing Ontario. She is chair of the Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology and sits on the Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration. Senator Moodie is a pediatrician, senior neonatologist, clinical teacher and professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. She has a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Public Administration.

Lord Kamall (United Kingdom)

Lord Kamall was a non-executive board member of the Department for Business and Trade between May 2023 and August 2024. He was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport between 20 September 2022 and 28 October 2022.

Lord Kamall was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Technology, Innovation and Life Sciences at the Department of Health and Social Care between 17 September 2021 and 20 September 2022. He was made a life peer on 11 February 2021. He is Professor of Politics and International Relations at St Mary’s University, Twickenham.

Patricia Gomes Rêgo de Almeida (Head of Innovation, IT Governance, and Digital Strategy - Brazilian Chamber of Deputies)

Patricia has a master’s degree in electrical engineering, and PhD in Public Administration focused on Artificial Intelligence Governance. She is the Head of Innovation, IT Governance, and Digital Strategy at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, where she is responsible for the Digital Transformation Strategy, AI policy, AI project portfolio, as well as Artificial Intelligence Governance and Data Fluency projects.

Patricia is also coordinator of the Parliamentary Data Science Hub of the Centre for Innovation in Parliaments at the Inter-Parliamentary Union, where she is leading a task-force to write an AI Guidelines for Parliaments.

Workshop Recommendation

CPC Workshop B: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Parliamentary Processes and Practices - Opportunities and Challenges

The recommendation proposed for endorsement by workshop delegates is as follows:

  • Parliaments should encourage the sharing of best practice and lessons learned from integrating AI in parliamentary processes and practices.

Workshop Resources

CPC Workshop B: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Parliamentary Processes and Practices - Opportunities and Challenges

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