Benchmark-indicator production: AI-assisted legal-text extraction & response validation
LLMs extract de jure data from laws, cross-validate expert-contributor responses and flag coordinated or biased answers
- Who we serve
- Multilateral Development Banks
- Category
- Multilateral Internal Operations
- Value
- Cost
- Human role
- Human approves every decision
- Maturity
- B-READY topics
- Data production (M&G Chapters 3, 5; Handbook Chapter 1, Annex C)
The problem
Without AI-assisted legal-text extraction & response validation, world Bank DECIG (B-READY carry this work manually, case by case, working through project documents, board papers, results and disbursement records, staff data by hand, with the cost, delay and error rate that implies.
How it works
Benchmark-indicator production: AI-assisted legal-text extraction & response validation - LLMs extract de jure data from laws, cross-validate expert-contributor responses and flag coordinated or biased answers. It draws on project documents, board papers, results and disbursement records, staff data and is typically owned by world Bank DECIG (B-READY. Where the human comes in: world Bank DECIG (B-READY review and approve before any action affects a person, a payment or a case; the AI flags, ranks and drafts. It is recommended by a standards body but not yet documented in deployment; examples include No AI documented; current stack is expert questionnaires in survey software, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, a data-management portal and scripted computational files.
Where the human comes in
World Bank DECIG (B-READY review and approve before any action affects a person, a payment or a case; the AI flags, ranks and drafts
What it needs
project documents, board papers, results and disbursement records, staff data
What to plan for
Integrity protocols (GIA assurance, EBC function) would need to cover any AI step
In the field
No AI documented; current stack is expert questionnaires in survey software, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, a data-management portal and scripted computational files
B-READY Manual & Guide (2024): Sections 2.5 (computational files, reproducibility package), 3.1.11 (bias check on similar responses), 5.2.4 (data validation)
Public deployments by other organizations, listed for context. Not Sphere projects.