AI Tools for Casework: A Guide for Congressional Staff
AI Tools for Casework: A Guide for Congressional Staff, shares a few starting points for caseworkers to use tools like ChatGPT in casework, including sample prompts.
Congressional Hackathon 5.0 Recap
A recap of Congressional Hackathon 5.0, co-hosted by the Speaker of the House, Minority Leader of the House, and the CAO.
Tall Expectations (and a Suggestion) for the House’s New Bipartisan AI Task Force
The US House of Representatives announced the creation of a bipartisan AI Task Force to help lawmakers better understand this emerging technology. The task force launch is a timely boost to Congress’ exploration of the opportunities and challenges posed by these new technologies.
POPVOX Foundation and FAI encourage Congressional staff to “fall in love” with GenAI
POPVOX Foundation and the Foundation for American Innovation have released “Fall in Love with AI,” a resource designed to help Congressional staffers integrate artificial intelligence into their workflows.
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.
2023: A Monumental Year for POPVOX Foundation
As we take stock of an eventful year, we see significant progress in Congressional capacity — much of it under the radar and out of the headlines. We at POPVOX Foundation have been hard at work on our mission to make government work better for everyone, and are proud of what we have accomplished in 2023.
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.
The Senate Issues Guidelines for Responsible Internal AI Usage
The US Senate’s guidance, authorizing the use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing Chat AI, and Google’s Bard for research and evaluation purposes, is a notable step in the institution’s experimentation of how AI-enabled tools can augment staff capacity, boosting productivity and efficiency.
ICYMI: Empowering Legislative Staff with AI on Capitol Hill
POPVOX Foundation and R Street Institute recently hosted an introductory discussion on the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the workflows of Congressional legislative staff. The event included an overview of current institutional guidance and featured insights from prior Hill staff and policy experts.
ICYMI: Embracing AI in Congressional Communications
POPVOX Foundation and R Street Institute hosted an introductory discussion on the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the workflows of Congressional communications staff. The event included an overview of current institutional guidance and featured insights from communications experts.
A Congressional Office’s Guide to Establishing a Generative AI Internal Use Policy
Generative AI is advancing at an incredibly rapid pace. House and Senate offices should be clear about their internal office guidance and encourage staff to think innovatively about how GenAI can be used across their DC and district office teams to increase effectiveness and efficiency.
Keeping Pace with AI: The Legislative Branch Charges Forward in Second Flash Report
A new flash report provides a noteworthy update on the wide range of AI advancements and accomplishments occurring within the House and across the entities that support it.
Op-Ed (FedScoop): House ‘flash report’ on AI signals capacity gains
A new AI report from the Committee on House Administration underscores that Congress is not just looking at how to regulate AI but also working to ensure the responsible use of automated technologies within the legislative branch.
POPVOX Foundation hosts “Legislating for (and with) AI” event with Samuel Hammond
Samuel Hammond, Chief Economist at the Foundation for American Innovation, shared a presentation about how AI will transform political institutions.
POPVOX Foundation participates in the fifth Congressional Hackathon
On September 14, 2023, POPVOX Foundation’s Deputy Director, Anne Meeker, presented a prototype demonstrating how artificial intelligence could help caseworkers better serve constituents.
Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models
This written submission is offered jointly by Westminster Foundation for Democracy and POPVOX Foundation to the UK House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee with regards to its post-legislative scrutiny inquiry of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (“the Lobbying Act”).
AI Tools for Congress
Demand Progress, Foundation for American Innovation (formerly Lincoln Network) and POPVOX Foundation held a briefing for congressional staff — in cooperation with House Digital Services — to open a discussion on the use of new AI tools in the legislative branch workflow. The event builds on the article “Bots in Congress: The Risks and Benefits of Emerging AI Tools in the Legislative Branch” and is the first of several related events.