Taiwan's Legislature uses AI to read bills for 1st time

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The Legislative Yuan used artificial intelligence (AI) to read proposed legislation aloud for the first time on Wednesday.

Taipei, Nov. 11 (CNA) The Legislative Yuan used artificial intelligence (AI) to read proposed legislation aloud for the first time on Wednesday.

Lawmakers on the Legislature's Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee agreed to use AI to read 15 versions of proposed amendments to the Dementia Basic Act, a standard procedure before the bill's review began.

The AI initially read at 1.5 times its normal speed for 10 minutes before increasing to twice the normal speed after lawmakers said they had no difficulty keeping up, completing the reading in 70 minutes, committee chair Chen Ching-hui (陳菁徽) said.

Chen, a Kuomintang (KMT) lawmaker, said legislative staff would have needed about two hours and 11 minutes to read all 15 proposals.

She hoped the first use of AI would pave the way for its wider adoption in the Legislature.

The idea came after Chen once lost her voice and used an AI-generated version of her voice to question Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) during a plenary session in 2024.

Chen said Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) has since encouraged the Legislature to explore AI use and established a task force to study its applications.

Before Wednesday's meeting, the committee worked with the Legislature's Information Technology Department to test the application and ensure its accuracy, she said.

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