What the 120th Congress Could Be
As one of the largest freshman classes in decades heads to the 120th Congress, AI is reshaping the landscape: frontier models are advancing in math and encryption, OpenAI shelved a model it couldn’t see inside, DHS banned DeepSeek, and House Rules proposals target Congressional modernization.
POPVOX Foundation's Sample AI Policy for Congressional Offices
POPVOX Foundation’s updated AI use policy template gives House and Senate offices a free, customizable starting point for setting internal rules on generative AI. It covers prohibited uses, best practices, and recommended use cases, with steps for adapting it to each Congressional office.
Claude is Approved for Senate Use. POPVOX is Here to Help.
POPVOX Foundation offers free, vendor-neutral AI training for Senate, House, state legislative, and parliamentary offices. Following the Senate’s approval of Claude Enterprise, one-hour, off-the-record sessions cover prompting, security, hallucination risks, and Congressional use cases, helping legislative staff adopt AI responsibly and confidently.
Updated: Where the House and Senate Are on Internal Use of AI
A detailed overview of how the US House of Representatives and Senate are governing internal use of artificial intelligence, including a summary of current AI policies, approved tools, and key limitations on staff use.
The POPVOX Foundation Model
POPVOX Foundation’s nonpartisan model helps legislatures modernize from the inside out by recognizing problems, mapping pain points, proposing solutions, piloting them, and sharing lessons. Case studies include remote Congressional proceedings, Internapalooza, casework data systems, AI training for staff, and Congressional modernization efforts.
Building the Future of Parliaments, Together: Digital Parliaments Project 2026 Q3 Convening Progress Report
The Digital Parliaments Project's Q3 2026 convening recaps summer regional workshops in Albania, Ghana, and Miami, new ParlLink updates including a chatbot creator and added languages, upcoming AI assessment and training resources, vibe coding experiments, and plans to expand the global parliamentary community.
AI’s Exponential Change and Riding the Wave
AI models are accelerating faster than staff can track, with AGI claims, agent swarms breaking sandbox limits, and new watermarking and data-retention rules reshaping the landscape. Congressional staff get practical context on these developments, plus guidance on vibe coding and POPVOX Foundation's upcoming Three Horizons vision for Congress.
AI and Legislative Modernization Workshop with Balkan and Moldovan Parliaments
POPVOX Foundation, in collaboration with the House Democracy Partnership and hosted by the Albanian Parliament, convened parliamentary staff from Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Moldova in Tirana from July 20 to 23 for a workshop on AI and parliamentary modernization.
Congress is Investing in Custom AI. Here are the Questions that Need to be Asked.
The House of Representatives and Library of Congress are pursuing custom AI initiatives like Mia and PRISM, raising key questions about model selection, security, and vendor lock-in. Weighing closed versus open-weight models, retrieval-augmented generation, and fine-tuning, durable success depends on investing in institutional data infrastructure rather than any single AI model.
AI Model Customization: Why it Matters for Policy Makers
Meta's Muse Glimmer, Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, and Thinking Machines Lab's Inkling mark major open-weight AI releases, reshaping competition with closed providers and raising policy questions around foreign models, security, and accountability.
The AI Industry Changed, Again.
Open-weight AI models from China and the US are closing the gap with frontier systems, autonomous AI cyberattacks are raising new security concerns, and the House launches an Innovators Pipeline for staff-built tools. State legislatures also confront capacity gaps in adopting AI responsibly.
New Report: State Legislative Capacity in the AI Era
State legislatures face a widening “pacing problem” as generative AI reshapes lawmaking faster than institutions can adapt. Drawing on interviews across twenty-two states, State Legislative Capacity in the AI Era examines staffing, institutional knowledge, network relationships, and technology adoption, revealing where legislative capacity lags and where states are quietly outpacing Congress.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Highway to Hill: An artificially intelligent Congress?
Congress faces a growing capacity crisis, and AI could help — but adoption remains uneven. On Highway to Hill, POPVOX Foundation’s Managing Director, Aubrey Wilson, breaks down the barriers to safe, effective AI use on Capitol Hill, from staff training gaps and hallucination risks to privacy concerns and the case for custom-built Congressional tools.