The point: The Parliament establishes an officially controlled AI infrastructure as a counterweight to the already widespread use of public AI tools in legislative work.
The European Parliament is opening an internal AI platform called EPGenAI Hub with models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Mistral to regulate the growing and uncontrolled use of AI by Members and staff. The platform is expected to be available on a pilot basis from September.
Approximately 2,100 people use AI models daily in the European Parliament — equivalent to around 20 percent of all staff. Members and their assistants are increasingly turning to publicly available systems to draft speeches, parliamentary questions and amendments. Parliament leadership has identified alarming signs: an increase in amendments that need to be translated, recurring writing styles indicating AI use, and in some cases fabricated references to non-existent legislation.
The new EPGenAI Hub platform is intended to replace this uncontrolled use with an officially managed offering. Access to models from Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Mistral will be restricted to internal users, and Parliament hopes to thereby gain control over input data and ensure the quality of legislative work. April 2024 guidelines for Parliament staff already require marking AI-generated content with an “AI-assisted” disclaimer and prohibit entering sensitive data into public AI systems. However, Members are currently not required to disclose whether their contributions are AI-generated.
Brando Benifei, the Social Democrat who led Parliament’s work on the EU AI Act, justifies the step on transparency grounds: “Parliament must set a good example when the transparency rules of the AI Act come into force.” At a July session, several committee chairs warned of a growing number of MEPs using AI for drafting. Parliament’s Secretary-General Alessandro Chiocchetti was asked to develop guidelines; however, the matter could end up with the Constitutional Affairs Committee, which would need to amend Parliament’s rules of procedure.
Source: www.politico.eu · Published 20 July 2026
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