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

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/05/chat-gpt-swedish-pm-ulf-kristersson-under-fire-for-using-ai-in-role

by pabs3 • 12 months ago

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Frieren• 12 months ago

To be influenced in this subtle ways at such a high level. AI is trained by big tech corporations to accomplish their goals. To use any of it for policy making is a horrifying step in the wrong direction.

But that is the goal of tech companies by giving the service at a loss. To make people depend on it until big tech corporations have control of your own thoughts.

A prime minister should know better.

SilentTiger• 12 months ago

I couldn't agree more! AI isn't a universal, omniscient god, but rather a human-created tool. The knowledge it possesses isn't necessarily correct and may even carry political biases. It would be extremely dangerous for a nation's top leadership to rely on AI.

TheChaplain2• 12 months ago

The danger is not on such high level, as all decisions are highly scrutinized by the public.

But on the lower levels, where the insight is much much narrower and your ability to protest or influence the outcome is near zero... That I am worried about.

Municipals, councils, social services, make decisions that directly effect peoples lives. E.g. building permits, custody cases, restaurant permits and so so much more low level things.

And I somewhat understand, if you have a stack of cases to go through and ChatGPT can shorten it from 6 hours to 30 seconds, then why not? Never mind the details, if the outcomes at a glance seems match the average then lets go.

haganomy• 12 months ago

Never mind the details, if the outcomes at a glance seems match the average then lets go.

This has to be satire

TheChaplain2• 12 months ago

It is not. Ask your family, friends, acquaintances how much they use AI in their work and even at home to get through paperwork.

I am very interested in new technology and how people use it, I've brought it up a lot in my own circles and encountered several occasions where some "stop thinking" and takes the output from ChatGPT as "done-and-dusted".

And remember that people at municipal offices are just normal humans like you and me. Most just want to get things over with so they can go home, and AI is a convenient tool to help with that.

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

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