European Parliament builds EPGenAI Hub as AI slop infiltrates legislative work

European Parliament builds its own AI platform for MEPs

MEPs and their staff are already drafting speeches, questions and amendments with AI. The European Parliament's fix is to give them an official chatbot of its own, so they stop pasting draft laws into public tools. The European Parliament has a problem with AI, and its answer is more AI. Lawmakers keep using public chatbots to help write legislation. So the institution is building a sanctioned platform to bring that habit under control. The internal tool, called EPGenAI Hub, will give MEPs and staff access to models from Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and France's Mistral. The Parliament is testing it now and could begin the rollout as early as September, Politico reported. Why now AI has quietly seeped into the daily work of the Parliament. About 2,100 people, roughly 20% of staff, use it every day. The worry is what that is doing to the law. At a meeting this month, several committee chairs raised the alarm that MEPs and assistants were leaning on AI to draft amendments and other legislative work. The tells are hard to miss: a surge in amendments needing translation, recognisable drafting styles, and the odd hallucinated reference to a law that does not exist. "Parliament has not been immune to AI slop and misleading AI-generated content," said Brando Benifei, the lawmaker who steered the EU's AI Act. "MEPs must lead by example as the AI Act's transparency rules become applicable." What the Hub offers The platform lets users pick their model based on how sensitive the task is. Some run inside the Parliament's own systems, including Meta's Llama, OpenAI's GPT-OSS and Mistral Small. Others are more powerful services hosted outside, such as ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet. The goal is to stop officials feeding parliamentary material into uncontrolled public apps. The Parliament has already shown it to staff at workshops, one of which promised to help them "work smarter and faster." A governance gap The rules have not kept up. MEPs face no obligation to disclose whether an amendment, question or speech was written with AI. Committee chairs asked the secretary-general to draw up guidelines. They heard the job may instead fall to the constitutional affairs committee, which would have to rewrite the Parliament's rules. Staff already have their own rules, from April 2024 and now due for a rewrite. They must label AI-assisted work, and cannot put sensitive information into public AI tools. Not everyone is comfortable with the drift. Barry Andrews, an Irish Renew MEP, said some colleagues clearly use AI to draft questions, speeches and amendments. "I fully understand, given our workload," he said. "But for me personally, these are core democratic functions which voters elected us to perform." The sovereignty snag There is an awkward contradiction here. The rollout leans heavily on American AI, even as Brussels pushes to cut its dependence on US technology. The Parliament has been chasing digital sovereignty elsewhere, swapping Google for the French search engine Qwant and switching off built-in AI on MEPs' tablets over data-protection fears. Now it is opening its doors wider to US firms. The mix may not last. The Parliament's press service said the models on offer are under review. Open-source and EU sovereign models are becoming available through cloud providers the European Commission recently contracted. For now, the institution writing Europe's AI rulebook is still working out how to use the technology itself.

'Parliament has not been immune to AI slop': The EU is about to roll out its own AI platform -- including tools from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Mistral

The European Parliament wants secure AI for legislative use * The European Parliament is introducing a secure AI platform for legislative use * The officially sanctioned platform will allow MEPs and staff to use AI models * AI slop and hallucinations have become a problem for the European Parliament The European Union is planning to introduce an officially sanctioned AI platform to provide European lawmakers with a safer alternative to publicly available AI tools. The platform, dubbed the 'EPGenAI Hub', will include Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral models designed for legislative purposes. Multiple Members of European Parliament (MEPs) have raised concerns about the growing use of AI within the European Parliament, prompting the development of a platform that doesn't feed sensitive information into public models. Around 20% of the parliament's current staff use AI tools in their daily work - or about 2,100 people - which has contributed to some legislative materials containing errors and AI hallucinations. EU to adopt new AI platform "Parliament has not been immune to AI slop and misleading AI-generated content," said Brando Benifei, the Socialists and Democrats lawmaker. "MEPs must lead by example as the AI Act's transparency rules become applicable." Benifei led the European Parliament's work on producing the AI Act. Currently, there are no regulations that force MEPs to disclose if AI tools have been used to draft or amend legislative materials, but Irish Renew lawmaker Barry Andrews said that there is obvious evidence of AI use throughout the European Parliament. "That is their choice and I fully understand given our workload," he said, "But for me personally, these are core democratic functions which voters elected us to perform." There are guidelines in place for parliamentary employees however, with Politico reporting that any materials modified or produced using AI tools must include an "AI-assisted" disclaimer, and employees are not allowed to feed sensitive information into AI tools. MEPs and European Parliament staff have been given demos of the new EPGenAI Hub. The platform runs on the parliament's own infrastructure and external hosting, allowing the secure use of a range of AI models such as Meta's Llama, OpenAI's GPT-OSS, Mistral Small, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.