From Monday, October 26, 2026, staff at Sweden’s Government Offices will no longer be able to open the ChatGPT and Claude websites from their work computers. The Government Offices, known as Regeringskansliet, support the prime minister and the cabinet.
The change was first reported by Sveriges Radio’s news desk Ekot on October 23 and later confirmed by the offices in an email to SVT. The offices said the browser interfaces for ChatGPT and Claude would no longer be reachable from work computers from October 26.
Instead, employees are being directed to approved services, including Microsoft Copilot, which all staff can use. Internal information seen by Ekot indicated that Copilot’s security settings were raised after a review, although the press office declined to give details, citing security.
Digital director Mikael Wettercrantz declined an interview with Ekot but wrote on the offices’ intranet that using AI services without an agreement can have consequences for information security. The concern, in short, is that prompts typed into a consumer chatbot leave the organization’s control.
The block is narrower than a ban. It covers the public chatbot websites, not the underlying models: some staff will still reach ChatGPT and Claude through Intric, an internal AI assistant platform. The offices had already restricted DeepSeek, and similar blocks are already in place at the Swedish Tax Agency and the National Board of Institutional Care.
The move fits a wider pattern of workplaces drawing a line between approved AI tools and open consumer services. For staff, the practical change is small, one approved assistant instead of several open tabs, but it signals how seriously governments now treat where employee prompts end up. Our ChatGPT vs Claude comparison weighs the two assistants; this decision governs only government work computers, not public use.
Source: Gobi Daily
