Sweden Bans ChatGPT and Claude, Blesses Copilot Instead
Sweden Bans ChatGPT and Claude, Blesses Copilot Instead By Daniel Rao · Stockholm — October 23, 2026 Last August, Sweden's prime minister cheerfully told a business newspaper that he consults ChatGPT for second opinions on political matters. Come Monday morning, the government offices he leads will firewall ChatGPT — and Anthropic's Claude — off every staff work computer in Stockholm. Sweden is not turning its back on AI. It is drawing a hard line around which AI its civil servants may talk to, and that line runs straight through Redmond. According to reporting by Sveriges Radio's Ekot on Friday, the Government Offices of Sweden — the Regeringskansliet, the administrative engine room behind the country's ministries — will implement a hard network block on the two chatbots starting October 26. Staff who type chat.openai.com or claude.ai into their office browsers will get nothing back. The only chatbot left standing will be Microsoft's Copilot, which the offi...