ABSTRACT

In April 2021, the Committee for the Future of the Parliament of Finland (Eduskunta) organised an extraordinary hearing, that is, of an artificial intelligence (AI). While some legislatures and research groups had already begun to study the implication of AI in the parliamentary domain, this took the parliamentary world by surprise. It was the first time a parliament has directly interacted with an AI system in an actual parliamentary process. This research note attempts to conduct a preliminary analysis on the experiment and discusses its implications for future actions in the development of parliamentary tools and services using AI-based technologies. Analysis is dedicated to intra-parliamentary workspace, while considering possible effects on the main functions of parliament such as law-making and oversight. The note aims to spark the discussion around the implementation strategy, but also for the regulation of such systems in the parliamentary environment.

摘要

2021 年 4 月，芬兰议会未来委员会（Eduskunta）组织了一场非凡的听证会，即人工智能（AI）。虽然一些立法机构和研究小组已经开始研究人工智能在议会领域的影响，但这让议会世界感到惊讶。这是议会第一次在实际的议会过程中直接与人工智能系统进行交互。本研究报告试图对该实验进行初步分析，并讨论其对使用基于人工智能的技术开发议会工具和服务的未来行动的影响。分析致力于议会内部工作空间，同时考虑对议会主要职能（如立法和监督）的可能影响。