- The European Parliament is introducing a secure AI platform for legislative use
- Officially authorized platform will allow MEPs and staff to use AI models
- AI and hallucinations have become a problem for the European Parliament
The European Union plans to introduce an officially sanctioned AI platform to provide European policymakers with a safer alternative to publicly available AI tools.
The platform, called ‘EPGenAI Hub’, will include Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Mistral models designed for legislative purposes. Several Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have expressed concerns about the growing use of AI within the European Parliament, prompting the development of a platform that does not introduce sensitive information into public models.
Around 20% of current parliamentary staff use AI tools in their daily work (about 2,100 people), which has contributed to some legislative materials containing AI errors and hallucinations.
The EU will adopt a new AI platform
“Parliament has not been immune to the deterioration of AI and the misleading content generated by it,” said Socialists and Democrats lawmaker Brando Benifei. “MEPs must lead by example as the AI Law’s transparency rules are implemented.” Benifei led the European Parliament’s work to draft the AI Law.
There is currently no regulation requiring MEPs to disclose whether AI tools have been used to draft or amend legislative materials, but Renew’s Irish lawmaker Barry Andrews said there is clear evidence of AI use across the European Parliament. “That’s their choice and I completely understand that given our workload,” he said, “but for me personally, these are fundamental democratic functions that the voters elected us to perform.”
However, there are guidelines for parliamentary employees, with political inform that any material modified or produced using AI tools must include an “AI-assisted” disclaimer, and that employees cannot enter sensitive information into AI tools.
MEPs and staff at the European Parliament have received demonstrations of the new EPGenAI Hub. The platform runs on parliament’s own infrastructure and on external hosting, enabling the secure use of a variety 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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