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.<\/p>\n
Kristersson, whose Moderate party leads Sweden\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Kristersson told the Swedish business newspaper Dagens industri: \u201cI use it myself quite often. If for nothing else than for a second opinion. What have others done? And should we think the complete opposite? Those types of questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tech experts, however, have raised concerns about politicians using AI tools in such a way, and the Aftonbladet newspaper accused Kristersson in a editorial of having \u201cfallen for the oligarchs\u2019 AI psychosis\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to be very careful,\u201d Simone Fischer-H\u00fcbner, a computer science researcher at Karlstad University, told Aftonbladet, warning against using ChatGPT to work with sensitive information.<\/p>\n
Kristersson\u2019s spokesperson, Tom Samuelsson, later said the prime minister did not take risks in his use of AI. \u201cNaturally it is not security sensitive information that ends up there. It is used more as a ballpark,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But Virginia Dignum, a professor of responsible artificial intelligence at Ume\u00e5 University, said AI was not capable of giving a meaningful opinion on political ideas, and that it simply reflects the views of those who built it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe more he relies on AI for simple things, the bigger the risk of an overconfidence in the system. It is a slippery slope,\u201d she told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper. \u201cWe must demand that reliability can be guaranteed. We didn\u2019t vote for ChatGPT.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has come under fire after admitting that he regularly consults AI tools…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-320255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114977125337925222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}