Sweden's Government Offices Block ChatGPT and Claude, Keep Copilot
From October 26, Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers, leaving Microsoft Copilot as the only approved AI tool after a security review.
Sweden's Government Offices, the body that supports the prime minister and cabinet, will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from Monday, October 26. Civil servants are being directed to Microsoft Copilot, the only AI tool to pass an internal security review, according to Sveriges Radio.
Mikael Wettercrantz, the Government Offices' director of digitalisation, told staff on the intranet that using AI services without a formal contract can have "consequences for our information security." He said there have been "several examples of problematic use of open AI services," involving both the sensitivity of the information entered and how AI-generated answers were handled.
Why contracts matter
Consumer AI tools without formal agreements send user queries to servers run by external companies, and U.S. law allows authorities to compel those companies to hand over data. A formal security agreement defines, at a minimum, what a provider can and cannot do with government employees' inputs. Copilot was approved because the Government Offices reviewed it and raised its security settings afterward, which did not happen for ChatGPT or Claude.
Some employees can still reach both blocked tools through an AI platform the Government Offices built internally. The press office has not said how many people that covers or what restrictions apply.
A widening pattern
Sweden's Tax Agency and the National Board of Institutional Care have already imposed similar bans on consumer AI tools, and the Enforcement Authority is preparing its own decision. A separate internal audit at the Transport Administration found about 10 AI services being used in a "widespread and risky way."
The European Parliament went further in February, disabling AI features on all its work devices, including ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot, after concluding it could not guarantee the security of the data they processed. Concern among European governments has grown since Italy's ChatGPT ban in 2023.
The line Sweden draws is not entirely clean. Microsoft added Claude models to Copilot in early 2026, and in the EU Anthropic's models are off by default and must be enabled by administrators. The Government Offices has not confirmed whether Claude is switched on in its Copilot instance.
