Preliminary results of an empirical study about AI applications in the parliamentary workspace By Fotis Fitsilis, Hellenic Parliament; presented at the 12th Samos Summit on 5 July 2022; Session 4: Artificial Intelligence in Governance (Disruptive Technologies for Administrations and Cities 1) see https://www.samos-summit.com/agenda/;

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Dr. Fotis Fitsilis
Scientific Service, Hellenic Parliament
July 5, 2022

2. Structure
 Motivation
 Collaborators
 Design of Experiment
 Results
 Next steps
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3. Motivation
 AI: Buzz word or reality?
 Broad applications in society and economy
 Opportunities and challenges
 Paradigm shift in public organizations
 What about parliaments?
 Screening the parliamentary workspace for AI-based
solutions
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•Study prepared and implemented by:
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Open Government Institute + Hellenic OCR Team

5. DOE I
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 Two-step approach:
1. Brainstorming method (small team of experts)
2. Parliamentary workshop (MPs and practitioners)
 Tool: Xleap, https://www.xleap.net
 Cloud-based online variant for brainstorming
 Parameters:
 Relevance values: from 0 (irrelevant) to 10 (must-have)
 Priority values: from 0 (2021) to 10 (2030)

6. DOE II
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 Brainstorming: July 2020 (German, English)
 Workshop: March2021 (Greek)
 Composition: 14 participantsfrom 7 parliamentary
sectors
 ScientificService
 IT Unit
 StrategyUnit
 LibraryUnit
 Emergency response Unit
 Projects Unit
 MP advisors

7. Preliminary results I
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50 Brainstorming results: 210

8. Preliminary results II
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Data forparliamentarians
# AI proposal (shorttitles;
sorted afterrelevance)
1 Voting systems
2 Textanalytics
3 “SmartMP“ systems
4 Smartproceedings/minutes
5 AI-based subtitling
6 Workflowmanagement
7 Digital assistant
8 Smartmessaging service
9 Smartdebater
10 Chatbot
11 Automatictranslationinreal time
12 AI-based activity control
13 Predictive analytics

9. The next steps
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Implications (Hellenic Parliament)
1. When updating the parliament’s strategy plan
2. When planning for the organisation’s next generation
ICT systems
Wider implications (parliamentarycommunity)
 (Re-)usability and applicability of results
 Validation in different parliamentary workspaces
(Argentina 2022)

10. Contact & disclaimer
web: fitsilis.gr
E-mail: fitsilisf@parliament.gr
The informationand views set out in this presentationareonly those of the
author and do not necessarilyreflecttheofficialopinion of the Hellenic
Parliament
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