Ai “deceived” Swedish politicians. The deputy prime minister had to apologize

The Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf Kristensson and the deputy prime minister of this country Ebba Busch have in recent days to use the artificial intelligence (AI). The statements caused a debate over the security of the state, as well as the democratic control of the rulers.

Kristersson in an interview with the Swedish newspaper “Dagens Industri” at the beginning of August confessed that he was using the chatgpt platform to get a second opinion (Second Opinion). He added that to process a large amount of data, officials of the government office and advisers already use artificial intelligence tools. He expressed regret because of the imperfections of existing Swedish language models, which hinders the full use of new technologies.

The fact that artificial intelligence may be wrong was convinced by the deputy prime minister, the Minister of Energy and Entrepreneurship Ebba Busch. On Thursday, the politician apologized on Facebook to journalist Elina Pahnke for assigning her false statements in her speech during the Almedalen political week in Gotland. Bush, leader of Christian Democrats, a false quote by Phanke: “The power of men is not an abstraction – she is specific and crushes life,” she attacked feminists for creating a world in which teenage boys must be ashamed of their sex.

Deputy Prime Minister Bush explained that the artificial intelligence tool as a source of this statement indicated the already closed account on the X platform and an article not available in the digital version in the “Arbetet” newspaper.

Earlier, Ols Thorell, a parliamentarian, known for the record -breaking social democrats, known for its record quantity of 250 queries, confessed to the use of AI to write parliamentary interpellations.

In Sweden, the use of AI by politicians caused a debate. The journalist “Aftonbladet” assessed that this may pose a threat to state security when American technology companies collect data and know as the first thing about what the head of the Swedish government asks. In turn, the journalist of the Ttela newspaper drew attention to the problem of the problem of democratic control of politicians, when the source of their decision is not voters and their problems, but the opinion of artificial intelligence. In a similar spirit, the head of the cultural department of the Expressen daily spoke, emphasizing that AI has no human experience or ideological views, which makes him not a reliable adviser.

From Stockholm Daniel Zyśk (PAP)

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