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.

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.

General Resources

• CPA & OAS Parliamentary Handbook on Disinformation, AI and Synthetic Media
• IPU "Using Generative AI in Parliaments"
• WFD AI Guidelines for Parliaments
• 2023 CPA Conference: Artificial intelligence, Disinformation and Parliament (recordings playlist)
• The Art of Leading in the AI Age

The Parliamentarian Articles

• The Parliamentarian 2024 Issue Three: Artificial Intelligence in the Legislature by Janet L. Ecker
• The Parliamentarian 2024 Issue Three: 'Making it by Faking it': Political deepfakes are harming democracy by Marilyn Bromberg 
• The Parliamentarian 2024 Issue One: Why a Principled Approach to AI Matters by Rt Hon. Chloe Smith
• The Parliamentarian 2024 Issue One: What is Synthetic Disinformation and How Does it Threaten Democracies? by Ms Cassidy Bereskin 
• The Parliamentarian 2024 Issue One: Artificial Intelligence in Parliament's Traditional Halls: Opportunities, Challenges and Ethical Considerations by Luis Kimaid and Jonathan Ruckert
• The Parliamentarian 2024 Issue One: Artificial Intelligence, Disinformation and Elections by the Research Directorate at the National Assembly of Pakistan Secretariat
• The Parliamentarian 2024 Issue One: Artificial Intelligence, New Technologies and Their Impact on Gender Equality by Hon. Dr Zainab Gimba MP
• The Parliamentarian 2024 Issue One: AI, Disinformation and Democracy: The Need for Parliaments to Act by James Pinnell