Modern Parliament
Highlighting modernization initiatives from legislatures around the world. Learn more at popvox.org/modparl
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From Shadow to Institutional AI (opens the original)
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In my last piece, I reported and reflected on how legislatures across the globe are starting to decide how, when, and how much AI can be used in legislative processes. That shift was already visible in April at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)’s 152nd Assembly in Turkey: after adopting somewhat independent AI tools and initiatives to improve legislative processes, parliaments are now turning to how to govern these.The same pattern held a month later at the in-person meeting of the IPU’s in-pe
How Parliaments Are Learning to Live With AI (opens the original)
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Legislators and their staff are turning to GenAI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude to draft speeches, bills, and amendments. Substack recently added a scan tool that flags whether a post was written fully, partially, or not at all with AI help. How and when and how much to use AI is now a mainstream question for us all.And legislatures are responding. Three chambers recently announced changes:The European Parliament <a href="https://www.politico.eu/
What AI Reveals About Legislative Capacity (opens the original)
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I spent the morning drinking tea (after almost 30 years of being a heavy coffee drinker, I have now switched to Turkish tea, which I highly recommend) and reading POPVOX Foundation’s latest report, State Legislative Capacity in the AI Era, which looks at how state legislatures in the United States are beginning to adapt to AI.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vsy6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-me
The Latest in Parliamentary Modernization and AI (opens the original)
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It’s been a while since I shared a recommendations post, so I thought I would bring together a few recent developments in legislative modernization and AI, along with some pieces worth reading. I have also been experimenting with a new AI research tool called Consensus, which I have found useful for discovering academic work, and thought some of you might enjoy exploring it too.Also, for those attending the 2026 NCSL Legislative Summit in Chicago, POPVOX Foundation is hosting an <a href="https:/
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