The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has received harsh criticism after admitting that he often uses (AI) in his work. “I use it quite frequently. Even if it is only for a second opinion,” he acknowledged in an interview published on Sunday with the Swedish newspaper Today’s industryin which he has also recognized that this is a usual practice of other responsible for his government. The doubts about the security of the information that I introduce in ChatgPT and on the French Mechat platform – the uses, as he has stated in the interview – as well as the advertising he is giving from his position to the services of two private companies, has unleashed the controversy in Sweden.
Simone Fischer-Hübner, an computer expert at the University of Karlstad, warned in statements to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet about . According to the researcher, these tools can be dangerous for two main reasons. On the one hand, the information they provide is not always precise, which represents a significant risk when used to make government decisions.
On the other hand, since these systems learn from the data they receive, IA could incorporate and disseminate sensitive information by generating new answers accessible to the public. “It is possible that the information that introduces [el primer ministro] It is included in later models. If you use artificial intelligence to summarize a text, it can be a problem if it contains confidential information, ”said Fischer-Hübner.
Prime Minister’s spokesman Tom Samuelson said that Kristersson ran any risk when using AI. “Of course, it is not about confidential information. It is rather a guide,” said Samuelson to the press.
Kristersson’s critics have also pointed out that the prime minister “has fallen into the psychosis of the oligarchs,” as Signe Krantz said. Krantz stressed that the investment of technological giants this year is more than double the Swedish state budget, while many companies have “fired their experts in AI ethics.” “This could be a risk of security. Artificial intelligence companies collect user data and, in the worst case, the prime minister could have asked questions that are now linked to him on an American server,” he insisted.
Krantz has highlighted the example of Grok, Elon Musk’s AI platform: “After his adjustments, the Bot began to spread the anti -Semitism already praise Hitler,” he recalled. The increase in the use of AI and the responses of this type of platforms – especially among young people – have been subject to intense debates in Sweden.
As soon as a month ago, it was made public that the 16 -year -old son of the Swedish migration minister and asylum policies, Johan Forssell, like the neo -Nazi Nordic resistance movement, designated as terrorist organization by the United States in 2024.
Ulf Kristersson, of the moderate party (center -right), was chosen prime minister in October 2022, with the votes of the ultra -right democrats of Sweden. This populist party, anti -immigration and contrary to the presence of Muslims in Europe, is the second force of the Swedish Parliament, after the social democrats. The government leading Kristerson – a coalition of conservatives, democratians and liberals – has promised to reduce taxes and harden immigration laws.