Question 1 – What is your vision of AI in parliaments?

1. Using AI tools/LLM’s with context to create Applications for use from MP’s, for decisions, comparing data, since Parliaments produce a lot of data.
2. Use of AI tools for building applications that harness the use of old documents and data.
3. Speech-to-text solutions.

I think that the most important AI usage in NARS will be the sage in security, as web security of the official website and protection of internal documentation circulation. In my view, as a professional dealing with parliamentary diplomacy, the usage of AI is valuable as in preparation official meetings, drafting or preparation of notes and to some extent drafting speeches (however, I personally still do not use it for the last).

AI in Parliaments may prove valuable in the following fields and services:

1) automatic metadata extraction/documentation of parliamentary materials of various text-types, both archival and contemporary
2) using LLMs to extract meaningful information/knowledge mining of parliamentary interest, applicable to decision-making and evidence-based policy making
3) speech-to-text and summarization tools for lengthy parliamentary sessions/proceedings
4) cyber-security through AI systems

The parliamentary operations especially in the administrative ones could use AI to improve their functionalities, become more user friendly, efficient and improve the parliamentary performance. Moreover the core parliamentary procedures (legislative and control) could use AI to handle their enormous data. Then the officials could obtain useful AI tools to do their everyday job in legislative drafting and parliamentary control analysis.

In a broad sense, AI in parliaments should be viewed as an eliminator of human errors and a vehicle for automatization. It could (and should) enable offices of parliaments and even elected members of parliaments to find inconsistencies and deficiencies in their work, as well as spot conflicts between new initiatives, proposals, or documentation and existing law, documents, or rules of operation without the need of painstaking human cognitive processes. Also, much of the work in the offices of parliaments could at least be speeded up by partly automating portions of tasks various departments face, especially the tedious and/or low-value parts of those tasks. More optimistically, AI (agents) could double or even partly replace some costly deliberations by simulating democratic or administrative debates on even the most minor topics, for which real public consultations would not be worth the cost or effort.