IPU webinar explores parliamentary action on AI
The IPU webinar will examine how parliaments are adapting oversight, expertise, and committee structures for AI policy.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union will hold a webinar on how parliaments are responding to AI, focusing on oversight, committee structures, technical expertise and institutional capacity.
The event is the first substantive parliamentary exchange since the adoption of the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on Parliaments and responsible AI in November 2025. It forms part of the IPU’s Parliamentary Action on AI webinar series, which follows earlier IPU work on AI, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
More than 60 national parliaments have taken action on AI through legislative reviews, oversight inquiries, dedicated committee structures and capacity-building programmes for MPs and parliamentary staff. Approaches, however, continue to vary across regions and institutional systems.
The webinar will draw on the IPU’s monthly tracker of parliamentary actions on AI policy. Participants will share experiences, lessons learned and emerging good practices on how legislatures can organise their work in a fast-moving and technically complex policy area.
The session will examine how specialised committees and other AI-related bodies are being created, how parliaments are sourcing independent technical expertise and how research services are adapting to support AI policy work.
It will also focus on sustaining informed engagement with governments and the private sector. The IPU says the aim is to help participants identify practical steps to strengthen parliamentary oversight of AI in their own institutions.
Why does it matter?
The webinar shows how AI governance is becoming a parliamentary capacity issue, not only an executive or regulatory one. As governments adopt AI strategies and companies deploy increasingly complex systems, legislatures need technical expertise, committee structures and research support to scrutinise policy choices, protect rights and hold decision-makers accountable. Also, it follows the IPU resolution on the impact of AI on democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, adopted at the 149th Assembly in Geneva in October 2024, and the Kuala Lumpur Declaration adopted at the Artificial Intelligence Conference in Malaysia in November 2025.
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