Reviving Leadership Over the Legislative Branch: A Proposal for a Joint Committee on Operations
The Joint Committee on the Library and Joint Committee on Printing, two-century-old bicameral clubs that once played a key role in increasing the public’s access to government information, have been stripped of their resources and all sense of purpose, creating significant gaps with respect to bicameral oversight of essential elements of the Legislative branch’s operations.
POPVOX Foundation Report Reveals How AI Can Transform Congressional Operations
Representative Bodies in the AI Era provides an overview of how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have been gradually adopted in the legislative workflows of parliaments globally over the past decades.
Northeastern’s CivicConnect Team Builds Congressional Office Chatbot Prototype
Northeastern students have built the first Congressional office chatbot prototype. The customizable, open source bot (CivicConnect) can learn from office documents to craft responses to constituents aligned with the representative’s policies. The CivicConnect team developed CivicConnect to streamline communication, reduce response times, and handle high volumes of correspondence.
Where the House and Senate are on Internal AI
While debates continue across Capitol Hill on approaches to regulation of artificial intelligence, institutional offices within the House of Representatives are taking steps to prepare for the impending paradigm shift.
Looking for Funding? New Opportunity in Knowledge Curation
Government decision making is only as good as the information available to decision makers. DARPA is looking at new ways to increase governmental capacity to make good decisions, including through inviting members of the public to apply for an innovative grant.