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Sweden's Government Offices Block ChatGPT and Claude, Keep Microsoft Copilot
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Sweden's Government Offices—the administrative body supporting the prime minister and cabinet—will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from Monday, directing civil servants to Microsoft's Copilot as the only approved AI tool, according to Sweden’s national, publicly funded radio broadcaster Sveriges Radio.
Key facts
- Sweden's Tax Agency and the National Board of Institutional Care have already imposed similar bans on consumer AI tools
- An internal audit at the Transport Administration separately found roughly 10 AI services being used there in a "widespread and risky way
- European government concerns about AI data security have been building since Italy's ChatGPT ban in 2023
- Sweden's Government Offices—the administrative body supporting the prime minister and cabinet—will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from Monday, directing civil servants to Microsoft's
Summary
Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers starting October 26. The government is citing information security concerns, with Microsoft Copilot remaining the only approved tool after a dedicated security review. Sweden's Tax Agency and the National Board of Institutional Care have already imposed similar bans, and the Enforcement Authority is expected to announce its own decision soon. The reasoning comes from Mikael Wettercrantz, the Government Offices' director of digitalisation, who posted on the staff intranet that using AI services without a formal contract can have "consequences for their information security.