European Parliament Launches Internal AI Platform for Lawmakers

The European Parliament is preparing to launch an internal artificial intelligence platform that will give lawmakers and staff access to models from major AI providers, as the institution struggles to manage the growing use of generative AI in legislative work.

The platform, called EPGenAI Hub, will offer models from Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and France's Mistral AI. Currently in testing, the system could begin rolling out as early as September 2026, according to two people familiar with the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The initiative comes as Parliament officials have grown increasingly concerned about members and their assistants using public AI tools to draft amendments, parliamentary questions and speeches. At a July meeting, several committee chairs expressed alarm over the proliferation of AI-generated parliamentary material, according to three people familiar with the discussion.

Around 2,100 people in the Parliament — roughly 20 percent of all staff — now use AI tools daily. Officials have noticed telltale signs of AI assistance, including a surge in amendments requiring translation, distinctive drafting patterns, and occasional hallucinated references to nonexistent laws.

How the platform works

The EPGenAI Hub will offer two tiers of access. Users can choose between models operated within Parliament's own secure infrastructure, including Meta's Llama, OpenAI's GPT-OSS and Mistral Small, or more powerful externally hosted services like ChatGPT and Claude Sonnet.

A beta version of the platform has already been demonstrated at workshops for MEPs and staff. One session this week promised to show "practical, everyday applications that will help you work smarter and faster," according to an email obtained by POLITICO.

The transparency problem

Currently, members of the European Parliament face no requirement to disclose when amendments, questions or other parliamentary work involved AI assistance. Parliamentary employees operate under separate guidelines from April 2024 that require them to label AI-generated work with an "AI-assisted" disclaimer and prohibit entering sensitive information into public AI systems. Those rules are already scheduled for revision.

Brando Benifei, the Socialists and Democrats lawmaker who led Parliament's work on the AI Act, said the institution must set an example. "Parliament has not been immune to AI slop and misleading AI-generated content," Benifei noted. "MEPs must lead by example as the AI Act's transparency rules become applicable."

Barry Andrews, an Irish Renew lawmaker who chairs Parliament's development committee, acknowledged that some colleagues already use AI for core legislative functions. "That is their choice and I fully understand given our workload," Andrews said. "But for me personally, these are core democratic functions which voters elected us to perform."

Why it matters

The Parliament's approach reveals the tension between managing AI risks and acknowledging its inevitable adoption. By providing sanctioned tools, officials hope to prevent sensitive legislative material from flowing into uncontrolled public platforms while maintaining some oversight of quality and accuracy. Yet the move also deepens European reliance on American AI companies even as the EU pursues digital sovereignty — a contradiction highlighted by Parliament's recent replacement of Google with French search engine Qwant and its decision to disable AI features on MEPs' tablets over security concerns.

Committee chairs have asked Parliament Secretary-General Alessandro Chiocchetti to develop usage guidelines for lawmakers. Chiocchetti suggested the matter may instead fall to Parliament's constitutional affairs committee, which would need to amend the institution's rules of procedure to impose stricter controls.

The Parliament's press service said the AI models offered may change in coming months, "especially in light of availability of open-source and EU sovereign models from sovereign cloud providers recently contracted by the European Commission."

These details were first reported by POLITICO Europe.