Parliamentary debate assistant

Bill drafting and amendments

Chile - Chamber of Deputies

Use case ID: 058

Author: Chamber of Deputies of Chile

Date: 20 August 2024

Objective:

Understand the content, arguments, opinions, literal statements, outcomes, votes, interventions, etc. of historical debates held in the Chamber of Deputies. This use case describes part of a suite of AI-based products. The CAMINAR platform supports legislative work with the help of AI. It emerged as an innovative response to the challenges faced by the National Congress of Chile during the COVID-19 pandemic and owing to the country’s political situation. The project seeks to leverage the digital strengths of the Chamber of Deputies by utilizing its regulatory repository and parliamentary databases.

Actors:

  • Parliamentarians
  • Officials 

Prerequisites:

  • Database
  • Vectorized regulations documentation
  • Vectorized legal documentation at different legal levels
  • Appropriate prompt
  • Transcripts of sessions, structured by intervention, content, or atomic structures for vector storage
  • System to integrate the tool into its production phase 

Scenario:

  1. Both parliamentarians and officials interested in political activities in the chamber can access an assistant capable of answering a wide range of questions related to historical debates. 

Expected results:

  • Current and future motions and bills are enriched in light of past debates.
  • Voting outcomes for previously presented bills are considered during the formulation of new proposals.
  • The results of technical, political or regulatory feasibility assessments for previously presented proposals are considered during the formulation of new proposals. 

Potential challenges:

  • Need for human validation at all times 

Data requirements:

  • Vectorized regulations
  • Updated database for assistant consumption
  • Framework documentation, which may be related to documents or files peripheral to the national legal framework
  • Motions and bills under discussion
  • LLM’s own knowledge
  • Transcripts of sessions converted into LLM-consumable structures 

Integrations with other systems:

  • Management and administration systems for senior corporate management
  • Legislative proposal generation or parliamentary support systems 

Success metrics:

  • Accuracy of the response, when correctness can be determined
  • Speed of the response, related to the requirements of repetitive tasks
  • Legislative coherence

 

The Use cases for AI in parliaments collection is published by the IPU’s Centre for Innovation in Parliament as part of the Parliamentary Data Science Hub’s project to create guidelines for AI governance in parliaments.

 

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