‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role

Sweden’s prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, said he used AI quite often, ‘if nothing else than for a second opinion’. Photograph: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has come under fire after admitting that he regularly consults AI tools for a second opinion in his role running the country.

Kristersson, whose Moderate party leads Sweden’s centre-right coalition government, said he used tools including ChatGPT and the French service LeChat. His colleagues also used AI in their daily work, he said.