Quorum rating assistant

Bill drafting and amendments

Chile - Chamber of Deputies

Use case ID: 051

Author: Chamber of Deputies of Chile

Date: 20 August 2024

Objective:

Determine the type of quorum according to legal regulations and the Constitution. 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:

  • XML database
  • Vectorized regulations documentation
  • Vectorized legal documentation at different legal levels
  • System to integrate the tool into its production phase 

Scenario:

  1. Users access a system that allows them to enter a bill or motion, and the system proposes a constitutionality status. If a quorum is required, the system indicates the specific type. 

Expected results:

  • The quorum condition of a bill is delivered. 

Potential challenges:

  • Integrity of the response and legal precision
  • Bias limitations
  • Mis-interpreted response because the tool does not understand the context of relevant laws
  • Corporate responsibility exemption, ensuring the information provided is fully informative
  • Need for human validation at all times
  • Extraction of information from case law
  • Extraction of information from other State bodies 

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
  • LLM’s own knowledge 

Integrations with other systems:

  • Parliamentary service system (PORTAL)
  • Management systems for senior corporate management 

Success metrics:

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

 

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