Bosnia’s Parliament Adopts Roadmap for Responsible AI Use

By Suad Seferi · Aug 19, 2026

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Parliamentary Assembly has adopted a roadmap for using artificial intelligence in its daily operations, setting out rules, staff training and a first group of practical AI projects inside the country’s national legislature. The roadmap makes the Parliamentary Assembly the first legislative institution in Bosnia and Herzegovina to establish a strategic framework for integrating AI into its work, according to the United Nations Development Programme, which has supported the initiative. Rather than introducing a single AI system, the plan lays out how the institution intends to manage the technology as it becomes part of routine parliamentary work. The first planned pilots include AI-assisted transcription of parliamentary sessions, media analysis, language and editorial support, and AI assistants intended to help staff in the Parliamentary Assembly’s Secretariat. The projects are expected to operate with safeguards covering data protection, human oversight and responsible use. The roadmap is built around three priorities: developing AI skills among staff, creating internal policies and governance rules, and gradually introducing AI tools into selected parliamentary processes. That institutional approach follows signs that AI was already entering day-to-day work informally. An AI readiness assessment carried out with UNDP found that staff were already using AI tools, but also identified a lack of common standards, internal policies and institutional capacity for managing their use. The assessment used the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s AI Maturity Framework for Parliaments and included surveys, interviews and practical workshops. More than 40 employees of the Parliamentary Assembly’s Secretariat later took part in a two-day training programme covering practical use of generative AI as well as the legal, ethical and security issues that come with introducing the technology into public institutions. The training was not the institution’s first step. In May, members of parliament, delegates and parliamentary staff took part in a separate programme titled “Artificial Intelligence in Practice at the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” organised by the Secretariat with UNDP support. The programme covered AI risks and opportunities, regulation and practical applications in parliamentary work. The move comes as public institutions across the Western Balkans face increasing pressure to decide how generative AI should be used internally before wider regulation is fully established. For Bosnia and Herzegovina, the issue also intersects with the country’s European integration process. During the May training programme, UNDP representatives pointed to the Parliamentary Assembly’s future role in adopting legislation governing AI as Bosnia and Herzegovina aligns more closely with European rules. That gives the roadmap a significance beyond administrative efficiency. AI-assisted transcription or editorial work may appear relatively limited compared with higher-risk uses of artificial intelligence in areas such as policing, healthcare or social services. But introducing formal governance at the parliamentary level establishes procedures for how public employees use AI, how outputs are checked and where human responsibility remains. The Parliamentary Assembly is not giving AI systems authority to make parliamentary decisions. The current focus is on supporting staff and improving administrative processes, with human oversight remaining part of the framework. That distinction is important in a region where many public institutions are experimenting with commercial AI tools faster than internal rules are being written. The next stage will be implementation. UNDP says work will now move toward developing the first pilot projects, applying the roadmap’s priorities and further strengthening the institution’s capacity to manage AI use. For Bosnia and Herzegovina, the real test will come when those pilots leave the planning stage and become part of everyday parliamentary work, particularly in areas where sensitive institutional data, accountability and the accuracy of AI-generated material become practical rather than theoretical concerns.