The EUROSAI Parallel Audit on AI — 12 Supreme Audit Institutions Benchmark Government AI Readiness

Twelve Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) across Europe and Israel sought a comparable way to assess their national governments' preparedness for AI, rather than each auditing independently with different methods.

Apply a single shared methodology so that a coordinated but 'parallel' audit (each SAI examining its own government) would still produce genuinely comparable, cross-country findings on government AI readiness.

SAI Israel coordinated the audit from May 2024 to December 2025 using a shared analytical framework of 9 topics and more than 92 structured questions, applied independently by each of the 12 participating institutions (Albania, Estonia, France, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Switzerland).

The consolidated report, published March 2026, found that institutional ownership of AI initiatives is generally ahead of operational guidance, that ethics commitments often remain principles-level without testable assurance mechanisms, and that every examined government relies on third-party cloud providers even where national cloud environments exist, making hybrid delivery the practical norm.

The exercise demonstrates that a shared audit framework can produce comparable results across 12 different national administrations, but as a first cycle it has not yet been shown to change government AI policy in any participating country.