Sweden blocks ChatGPT and Claude on government computers over security
Sweden's Government Offices began blocking ChatGPT and Claude for all ministry staff from October 26, redirecting them to a hardened Microsoft Copilot deployment.
Summary
The AI in Government: Policy Brief for the week beginning 26 October 2026 reports that Sweden's Government Offices, called Regeringskansliet, will stop staff using ChatGPT and Claude on their computers from Monday 26 October. The item attributes the news to Sveriges Radio Ekot of 23 October, relayed by Daily Northern, which cites SVT, and by MadRobot.
The newsletter says the measure applies to the prime minister's office and all of the ministries. Staff are being steered towards Microsoft Copilot, which the newsletter says the Government Offices have examined and hardened. It quotes digitalisation director Mikael Wettercrantz, who cautioned on the intranet that AI services used without an agreement could bring consequences for information security.
According to the brief, other Swedish bodies have moved in the same direction. It says the Tax Agency has a comparable restriction already, as does the National Board of Institutional Care, and that the Enforcement Authority is weighing one. The newsletter's author describes the dividing line as contractual rather than technical, noting that staff had been using web services lacking any data-processing agreement. The author also suggests the approach funnels government AI use toward the incumbent office-suite vendor, which is the newsletter's own assessment; the saved text stops before that sentence ends.
The item sits within a weekly digest compiled by Jeremy N. White of the International Institute for AI in Government. That edition says it holds 68 articles split across seven sections, among them the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, with links back to the original sources.