22 January 2025
The use of AI by parliaments has become a key focus of recent months. In this Public Engagement Hub seminar we will undertake an open exploration of what AI may mean for public engagement with parliaments.
The first part of the seminar will be structured around an ‘In Conversation’ format which will discuss and reflect on why it is important to consider AI from a public engagement perspective. The panel will consider the role that AI may potentially play in enhancing public engagement with parliaments. We will identify opportunities arising from this, as well as risks and how these can be mitigated.
The panel will seek to highlight examples of parliaments using AI for outreach and public engagement and discuss what we can learn from these. The panel will aim to discuss the role of AI as a summative tool (translating, transcribing, summarising volumes of data/evidence), but also as an inductive tool to stimulate ideas and enable deeper forms of engagement.
The second part of the seminar will open up for Q&A and the sharing of experiences and queries on the topic.
Panelists include: Franklin De Vrieze (Head of Practice Accountability, Westminster Foundation for Democracy). Other panelists to be announced.
Chair: Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira, University of Leeds and Chair of IPEN
This event will take place on Zoom and is open to anyone with an interest in public engagement with parliaments.
The seminar will be presented in English. Translation will be available from/to French.
Find out more and register here.
About the Public Engagement Hub seminar series
This seminar is jointly organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the International Parliament Engagement Network (IPEN). The event is part of a series of webinars hosted by the Public Engagement Hub.
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