The governance structure is currently being drawn up by the Strategy and Innovation Unit with the help of other departments and units.
As for the internal structures governing the use of (generative) AI, the Research Unit is the only entity in the Office of the Seimas that provides any directions on this technology. In December 2023, our Research Unit approved new internal quality assurance guidelines, which have a paragraph about the use of AI for our work. The paragraph, when translated from Lithuanian, sounds like this:
“The Unit may use generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to gather relevant information necessary for the preparation of high-quality analytical work, and the author(s) shall keep the Head of Unit informed thereof. If answering the inquiry and the resulting written research document involves the use of AI technologies, this shall be indicated in the document’s footnotes and references to sources. The purpose of the use of AI tools shall be explained, together with a brief description of the information gathering and content generation process. The department’s work shall ensure the ethical use of the output generated by the AI tools.”
