POPVOX Foundation Launches H3: A Three Horizons Vision for Congress
POPVOX Foundation's Three Horizons Vision (H3) Project maps the gap between Congress' governing demands and its institutional capacity. An interactive microsite invites Members, staff, and civil society to classify reforms across three horizons and five domains, shaping a capable Legislative branch.
AI Is a New Input in Young People’s Career Calculus
AI is reshaping how young people weigh career decisions, but San Francisco and Washington calculate the risk differently. San Francisco channels AI anxiety into startup bets and Big Tech tradeoffs, while Washington treats it as another policy input shaping mission-driven work, prestige, and personal brand.
The Latest in Parliamentary Modernization and AI
Canada's new national AI strategy and Parliament's human-centered AI approach, IPEN's leadership transition to Sarah Moulds, and comparisons between Commonwealth Parliaments and US state legislatures on institutional culture and technology. Plus IPU's Geneva AI governance talks, Tajikistan's legislative AI training, and POPVOX Foundation's NCSL Chicago reception on parliamentary modernization.
250 Years of Legislative Legacy
Legislative data modernization takes center stage alongside frontier AI model export controls, tips for avoiding LLM lock-in, using AI as a Congressional rules tutor, and roundups of tools, events, and research shaping technology adoption across Congress and legislatures worldwide today.
What Two Years of ModParl Have Taught Me About AI in Parliaments
Two years of ModParl reveal what legislatures need for AI adoption: digitized information foundations, an institutional lens treating parliaments as information processors, AI literacy across staff and Members, engaged leadership, ICT-staff collaboration, governance frameworks, and incremental experimentation building toward institution-wide strategy rather than isolated pilot projects.
Modern Legislative Tools for African Parliaments
AFRIPAL, WFD, and POPVOX Foundation convened parliamentary staff and civil society from across Africa to explore digital transformation for legislatures. Topics included AI-powered tools, data standardization, cybersecurity, and ParlLink — a platform converting paper records into searchable legislative data.
AI Is an Institutional Challenge, Not an ICT Project
Annelie Lotriet, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa, examines why artificial intelligence readiness demands institutional leadership, not just ICT solutions. She explores Member literacy gaps, university partnerships, disinformation risks, and how AI could transform legislative oversight, research, and citizen engagement across national and provincial parliaments.
Lessons Being Learned with Fable
Anthropic's Fable 5 model was pulled from public access days after release when researchers found ways to bypass its safety guardrails, prompting Commerce Department export controls on Fable and Mythos. The episode highlights gaps in Congressional oversight of rapid AI policy decisions affecting national security.
POPVOX Foundation Brings Its Work to State Legislatures
POPVOX Foundation is expanding its legislative modernization work to state legislatures across America, offering a new newsletter, a growing resource bank, hands-on AI training, and original research on legislative capacity — all tailored to the unique needs of full-time and citizen legislatures alike.
A State of the Art Welcome
State of the Art launches as a new monthly newsletter spotlighting AI adoption and institutional capacity in state legislatures. The debut issue features Idaho's staff AI guidance model, NCSL survey data showing usage nearly doubling, and an Adoption Tracker following pilots across five states.
Casework Navigator: DIY Edition
Caseworkers face a flood of agency updates, hearings, and news each day. Build a system to track what matters: define categories like Prepare, Explain, Proact, Watch, and Meta, source from agencies, IGs, and media, then use AI tools to scan, tag, and draft efficiently.
From Paper to Knowledge: How AI Is Changing the Value of Parliamentary Records
African parliaments are exploring how AI can unlock the value of digitized parliamentary records — from searching Hansards and tracking legislation to monitoring government assurances. The Digital Parliaments Project, led by POPVOX Foundation and partners, is building the data infrastructure to make that possible.
Building the Future of Parliaments, Together: Digital Parliaments Project 2026 Q2 Convening Progress Report
POPVOX Foundation's Digital Parliaments Project Q2 2026 convening covered ParlLink platform updates including bulk upload, a new data agreement, and AI prompting guides for parliamentary staff. Looking ahead: DPP launches in the Balkans and Africa, plus a Caribbean Parliamentary Modernization Summit in Miami this September.
Why We Brought an AI Sandbox to Capitol Hill
POPVOX Foundation brought a hands-on AI sandbox to Capitol Hill, giving Congressional staff direct access to coding agents, file-aware assistants, and agentic workflows blocked on official devices. Participants built hearing-prep dashboards, bill trackers, and Federal Register monitors — gaining firsthand intuition about how fast AI is advancing.
AI Base Camp: Congressional Staff Exploring AI Adoption Hands-On
POPVOX Foundation and Meridian International Center brought AI Base Camp to Capitol Hill, offering Congressional staff hands-on exploration of AI tools across six skills-based stations — from prompt basics and workflow integration to agentic AI and deepfake detection — in an open-house format welcoming all experience levels.
Build your AI skills at AI Base Camp in Rayburn on June 2
Explore the differences between foundational and frontier AI models, the growing impact of token-based pricing, practical ways to build custom AI assistants, and how AI is lowering barriers to civic technology development. Plus, insights on emerging AI policy, governance, and adoption across public institutions.
Casework Navigator: Changes Afoot
Casework Navigator is entering its final month, reflecting on the evolution of Congressional casework while examining major developments across federal agencies. This issue highlights modernization efforts, legislative updates, agency changes, emerging AI tools, and the future of constituent services in Congress.
Democracy, AI, and the Limits of Technological Pessimism
Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical frames artificial intelligence as a civilizational threat to human dignity and democracy — but is that framing too deterministic? A nuanced look at AI's democratic risks and possibilities, situated within a longer transformation of informational life already reshaping political institutions.
Inside the NYC Council’s Policy “Primeval Soup”
How the NYC Council built a digital infrastructure to manage its legislative workflow — from an AI-powered duplicate checker that resolves sponsorship disputes, to a RAG system preserving institutional memory, to automated compliance tracking — and what it means for legislative modernization more broadly.
POPVOX Foundation Welcomes Ashley Nagel
Ashley Nagel brings engineering expertise and firsthand Senate experience to her role as Senior Manager for Government Innovation at POPVOX Foundation, where she leads Congressional engagement, advances institutional modernization, and bridges the policy-technology divide through training, relationship-building, and hands-on demos of emerging technologies for Hill staff.