10:00–11:00 (Geneva, CEST)

More than 60 national parliaments have now taken action on artificial intelligence – from legislative reviews and oversight inquiries to dedicated committee structures and capacity-building programmes for MPs and staff. Yet approaches differ considerably across regions and institutional contexts. Most parliaments are still navigating how to organize their engagement with an issue that is technically complex, is evolving rapidly, and cuts across multiple sectoral mandates.

This webinar is the first substantive opportunity for parliamentary exchange since the adoption of the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on Parliaments and responsible AI in November 2025. It draws on the IPU’s monthly tracker of parliamentary actions on AI policy and brings together parliamentarians and staff from different regions to share parliamentary experiences, lessons learned and emerging good practices.

The session will focus on institutional adaptation, looking, for instance, at how specialized committees or other bodies with AI-related mandates are being constituted, how parliaments are sourcing independent technical expertise, how research services are being adapted to support AI-related work, and how parliaments are creating conditions for sustained, informed engagement with government and the private sector on issues of AI policy. The objective is to help participants identify practical steps they can take to strengthen parliamentary oversight of AI in their own institutions, informed by the experience of peers.

This webinar is relevant for the following audiences: 

• Parliamentarians with an interest in AI and/or serving on committees with a mandate related to technology, digital policy or AI

• Parliamentary staff working on AI policy, research or digital transformation

• Senior parliamentary leaders interested in how their institutions can build capacity to engage with AI

Languages: English, French, Spanish, Arabic

The video recording will be published on the IPU’s Artificial Intelligence YouTube channel.

Parliamentary action on AI webinar series

The event is part of the IPU’s Parliamentary action on AI webinar series in follow-up to the IPU resolution The impact of artificial intelligence on democracy, human rights and the rule of law (149th Assembly, Geneva, October 2024) and the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on Parliaments and responsible AI (Artificial Intelligence Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 2025). The entry point to the IPU’s work on artificial intelligence is www.ipu.org/AI.