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Swedish Prime Minister Wolf Christerson sparked public debate over politicians' use of artificial intelligence (AI) after calling for a “second opinion” in local media about how to run the country using chat grit and brainstorming.
Christerson told the Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri He uses ChatGpt and French service Lechat, and his colleagues also use AI in their daily work.
“If there's nothing else but a second opinion, I use it very often. 'What did the other people do? And should we think of the complete opposite?' These kinds of questions,” he said.
The comment sparked backlash, with critics claiming that voters chose Christerson rather than Chatgupt to lead Sweden.
Swedish technology experts have since raised concerns that politicians are using AI tools in such a way, citing the risk of making political decisions based on inaccurate information.
Large language models (LLMS) training data may be incomplete or biased, and chatbots may respond with incorrect answers or what is called “Hallucinations”.
“Getting answers from LLMS is cheap, but reliability is the biggest bottleneck,” says Yarin Gal, an associate professor of machine learning at Oxford University. Previously, EuroNews said:
Experts were also concerned about the sensitive condition information used to train the model after ChatGPT created by OpenAI. Its server is based in the US.
The Kristersson press team has sidelined security concerns.
“Of course, it's not security-sensitive information that ends there. It's more used as soundboards,” Christerson reporter Tom Samuelson told the newspaper Afton Bradette.
Should politicians use AI chatbots?
This is not the first time a politician has been fired for use of AI, or for the first time in Sweden. Last year, All Terrell, a social democrat in the Swedish parliament, used ChatGpt to write 180 written questions to the country's ministers.
He faced criticism of excessive pastoral staff.
Earlier this year, British technology secretary Peter Kyle's use of ChatGpt opened fire after a British magazine. New Scientist He revealed why AI adoption is so slow in the UK business community, and that he asked the chatbot what podcasts should be displayed to “reach a wide audience worthy of the Minister's responsibility.”
Some politicians have kept their AI use unsecret. In a newspaper column, members of Scottish Parliament Graham Reidbitter said he would use AI to write speeches as it would help him sift through the dense reading and give him a “good foundation for working from work”, but he emphasized that he was still calling shots.
“I choose the subject, choose the evidence I want to access, ask for a specific type of document, see what I agree with what I want to achieve,” Leadbitter wrote. National.
And in 2024, the European Commission deployed its own generative AI tool called GPT@EC to help staff draft and summarise documents on an experimental basis.
ChatGpt available to US civil servants
Meanwhile, Openai announced a partnership with the US government this week, allowing access to the entire federal workforce to ChatGpt Enterprises at a nominal cost of $1 next year.
The announcement was made immediately The Trump Administration has launched an AI Action Planaims to expand the use of AI across the federal government, reducing the time spent on paperwork, among other initiatives.
In a statement, Openai said the programme includes “strong guardrails, high transparency and deep respect” for the “public mission” of federal workers.
The company said there are benefits to using AI in the public sector through its pilot program at Pennsylvania. There, civil servants reportedly saved an average of 95 minutes per day on daily tasks using ChATGPT.
“Every civil servant deserves access to the best technology available, whether it's managing complex budgets, analyzing threats to national security, and handling the daily tasks of civil servants,” Openai said.
