- The European Parliament introduces a secure AI platform for legislative use
- The officially approved 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 plans to introduce an officially approved AI platform to give European lawmakers a safer alternative to publicly available AI tools.
The platform, called ‘EPGenAI Hub’, will include Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Mistral models designed for regulatory purposes. Several Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have expressed concern over the growing use of artificial intelligence in the European Parliament, prompting the development of a platform that does not feed sensitive information into public models.
Around 20% of Parliament’s current staff use AI tools in their day-to-day work – or around 2,100 people – which has contributed to some legislative material containing errors and AI hallucinations.
EU adopts new artificial intelligence 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 come into force.” Benifei led the European Parliament’s work to produce the AI law.
There are currently no rules forcing MEPs to reveal whether AI tools have been used to draft or amend legislation, but Irish Renew lawmaker Barry Andrews said there is clear evidence of AI use across the European Parliament. “It’s their choice, and I fully understand given our workload,” he said, “but for me personally, these are core democratic functions that voters have elected us to do.”
There are, however, guidelines in place for parliamentary staff Politico reporting that any material modified or produced using AI tools must include an “AI assisted” disclaimer and employees are not permitted to add sensitive information to AI tools.
MEPs and European Parliament staff have been given demonstrations of the new EPGenAI Hub. The platform runs on 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.
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