Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has faced criticism after revealing he frequently uses AI tools like ChatGPT and France’s LeChat to get second opinions while governing the country.
As leader of Sweden’s center-right coalition government, Kristersson told business newspaper Dagens Industri: “I use it quite often—if nothing else, to get another perspective. What have others done? Should we think completely differently? Those kinds of questions.”
However, tech experts have warned against politicians relying on AI in this way. The newspaper Aftonbladet criticized Kristersson in an editorial, accusing him of falling for “the oligarchs’ AI psychosis.”
Simone Fischer-Hübner, a computer science researcher at Karlstad University, cautioned: “You have to be very careful,” especially when handling sensitive information.
Kristersson’s spokesperson, Tom Samuelsson, clarified that the prime minister avoids security risks, stating: “Naturally, no sensitive information is shared. It’s used more for general guidance.”
But Virginia Dignum, a professor of responsible AI at Umeå University, argued that AI can’t provide meaningful political insights—it merely echoes its creators’ biases.
“The more he relies on AI for simple things, the greater the risk of overconfidence in the system. It’s a slippery slope,” she told Dagens Nyheter. “We must demand guaranteed reliability. We didn’t vote for ChatGPT.”
