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Title: Draft Guidelines for Legislature and AI
Article Date: 10/15/2024
Source: These draft guidelines were presented and discussed in the October 15, 2024 Legislative Coordinating Commission meeting.
Author: Senator Ann Rest and others
Type: Other
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File: Draft AI guidelines for the Legislature.pdf 

Text: Draft Guidelines for Legislature and AI

Legislative Use of AI

• The Legislature will collaborate with MNIT on matters related to AI. Legislative policies will
recognize the function of MNIT governance in developing legislative polices for legislators and
legislative workers.
• MNIT is working with agencies and through the Transparent Artificial Governance Alliance
(TAIGA) to promote a shared vision, standards, and processes around AI use in Minnesota
Government. MNIT and the legislature will collaborate on these shared goals.
o Establish a common, and flexible, framework for development and use of AI tools.
o Explore opportunities where AI can enhance legislative services.
o Ensure AI tools are adopted efficiently, appropriately, and safely.

Lay the Groundwork for AI in the Legislature

• MNIT supports and educates legislators and legislative workers on opportunities, risks, and
appropriate use, and potential of AI to improve their work, increase efficiency, and grow their
skills and careers.
• The legislature will work with MNIT to enhance their data management processes and prepare
their data and digital content for use with AI applications:
o Obtain verification that data/content is accurate, up-to-date, and well-protected with
proper security and permissions
o Review and assess data/contents readiness and reliability to support AI applications -
and update, remediate, or retire data that is not up to par (or no longer needed)
o Establish or enhance data management processes to promote - and sustain - the
accuracy, currency, and security of data/content.

Explore and Begin to Use AI Tools

• The LCC and appropriate entities within each body of the legislature will work with MNIT
through the Transparent Artificial Governance Alliance (TAIGA) to start testing AI tools in 2025
to leverage legislators and legislative workers to do the following:
o Create pilot or proof-of-concept programs that demonstrate AI's potential to increase
legislator and legislative worker productivity, administrative efficiency, enhance
employee performance, and improve legislator and legislative worker familiarity in using
and evaluating or creating legislative proposals and testimony. .
o Enable legislators and legislative workers to access AI assistants within personal
productivity tools, with proper guidance and security, to gain experience with available
technology and uses.
o Develop or purchase custom AI applications that allow legislators and legislative
workers to interact with existing data/content in a secure environment using natural
language tools - such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or support chatbots.


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