Avenues et défis de l’IA dans la procédure législative à l’aune du cas italien

Delving on a topic currently understudied, this article explores the impact of artificial intelligence on the legislative procedure through a set of reflections based on the case of the Italian Parliament. It advances the argument that, while AI, through the automation of some tasks of the legislative procedure, may generate significant gains in terms of efficiency, yet it is far from unproblematic, as its use carries constitutional implications that cannot be lightly dismissed from a legal perspective. After mapping the most relevant AI applications deployed within the Italian Chamber of Deputies, this article compares the institutional benefits derived from their use with the constitutional risks they entail. It then discusses emerging scenarios of ‘cyber-legislation’, in which advanced AI agents could draft major parts of statutes, and situates these developments within broader European regulatory debates while contrasting them with transatlantic governance approaches. The article concludes with a call for a cautious, legally framed approach.