The ChatGPT app displayed on an iPhone.Soaring numbers of MPs’ statements to parliament are being written using artificial intelligence without the public being told, HuffPost UK can reveal.
Research by academics at Napier University in Edinburgh revealed that 15% of written ministerial statements contained at least some AI content in 2026.
That is up from 8.1% last year, and a huge leap from 3.5% in 2022.
Evidence of AI’s increasing popularity among politicians comes just a day after it was claimed that it could kill humanity by the end of the decade.
The Napier University researchers looked at around 4,200 statements on parliament’s Hansard website as part of their work.
They found that 243 contained AI-assisted content, with the numbers increasing year on year....
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