Sweden's Government Offices (Regeringskansliet), the administration that supports the prime minister and every ministry, will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff work computers from Monday, October 26, and direct civil servants to Microsoft Copilot instead, Sveriges Radio's Ekot news programme reported on Friday. Copilot is the only assistant that has passed the Government Offices' security review.

Director of digitalisation Mikael Wettercrantz told staff on the intranet that using AI services without a formal agreement can have 'consequences for our information security,' and said the office had seen several examples of problematic use, both in the sensitivity of information staff entered and in how AI-generated answers were handled. The Government Offices reviewed Copilot and tightened its security settings before approving it; it did not take those steps for ChatGPT or Claude. Some employees will still be able to reach both chatbots through an AI platform the Government Offices built internally, though officials have not said how many people that covers.

Sweden's Tax Agency and National Board of Institutional Care have already imposed similar blocks, the Enforcement Authority is preparing its own decision, and a Transport Administration audit found roughly 10 AI services in widespread, risky use. The line Sweden is drawing is about contracts and data handling rather than model quality: a vetted enterprise agreement sets what a provider may do with government inputs, while the consumer web tools staff were opening in a browser have no such agreement. Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic has commented publicly.