Tech experts criticise Ulf Kristersson as newspaper accuses him of falling for ‘the oligarchs’ AI psychosis’

The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has come under fire after admitting that he regularly consults AI tools for a second opinion in his role running the country.

Kristersson, whose Moderate party leads Sweden’s centre-right coalition government, said he used tools including ChatGPT and the French service LeChat. His colleagues also used AI in their daily work, he said.

  • 332@feddit.nuEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I think most of us can agree that, ethical concerns about training data or energy cost aside, some use cases of LLMs are unproblematic given that you are actually validating the output. Meeting summaries, text manipulation, etc.

    The real problem here is that Kristersson seems to have used it in more dubious ways, “asking it for advice”. Depending on the specific LLM used this makes his use rank anywhere between “somewhat problematic” and “catastrophic”.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 days ago

      He’s not validating the output. He validating his views with ChatGPT. He’s using it as a “second opinion”.