This capstone uses the Kiambu County Assembly as a primary case study to examine how county legislatures can adopt AI to enhance efficiency and inclusion while respecting constitutional values, democratic accountability, and public trust. The project maps current and potential AI use cases, identifies legal, ethical and institutional gaps, and benchmarks emerging African and global practices on AI use in parliaments and digital legislatures.
This Capstone acts as a safeguard, ensuring that the transition to digital legislatures does not erode the confidentiality of sensitive legislative data or the integrity of human judgment. The Capstone explores the political-economy and democratic implications of AI, arguing that legislative authority must remain rooted in a democratic mandate rather than technological output. It highlights a profound risk: poorly governed AI can concentrate power within technical units or external vendors, potentially obscuring the very transparency and accountability that devolved governance aims to provide.