At UNCAC CoSP11, the ILI and its partners discussed the role of AI in anti-corruption legislative analysis

AI can become our best anti-corruption “filter” for reconstruction – and this is exactly what we discussed in Doha.

Within the framework of UNCAC CoSP11, the Institute of Legislative Ideas co-organized an event dedicated to integrating anti-corruption tools into post-war recovery in a way that identifies risks before decisions are adopted, rather than after scandals emerge.

Tetiana Khutor, ILI Chairwoman, emphasized that the resilience of Ukraine’s anti-corruption system is the result of constant stress-testing and the role of civil society, which prevents the system from breaking down. The key to this resilience is prevention, particularly at the lawmaking stage.

Over more than 10 years, the ILI has analyzed more than 8,700 draft laws, identifying typical corruption risks such as excessive discretion, vague powers, procedural exemptions, and risks related to public funds and oversight. However, the war has dramatically changed the scale of the challenge: more legislation, more recovery-related decisions, and less time and expert capacity.

That is why we presented the concept of an AI-based system for anti-corruption analysis of legislation. Built on the ILI’s extensive body of expert assessments, the system enables the following automated functions:

• identifying corruption indicators in draft laws;
• structuring risks by type and level of threat;
• operating through separate user accounts for different categories of users;
• continuously learning from new data and practice;
• publishing analysis results in a transparent and scalable manner.

We thank the speakers and partners of the discussion, in particular the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP), the Basel Institute on Governance, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Programme Office in Ukraine.

This media content is produced by NGO “Institute of Legislative Ideas” with the support of the Askold and Dir Fund as part of the Strong Civil Society of Ukraine – a Driver towards Reforms and Democracy project, implemented by ISAR Ednannia, funded by Norway and Sweden. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of NGO “Institute of Legislative Ideas” and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the Government of Norway, the Government of Sweden and ISAR Ednannia.