- 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.
