AI · 26 October 2026 · 4 min read
Sweden’s Government Offices have cut off the public ChatGPT and Claude sites. The models are still available inside
From 26 October, staff computers cannot open the browser versions of ChatGPT or Claude. The Government Offices told SVT that employees still reach both models through an internal platform called Intric, and that everyone has Microsoft’s Copilot, which the offices say they have reviewed. The Tax Agency and the national youth-care board already block the public sites. The Enforcement Authority is still deciding.
From 26 October, computers at Sweden’s Government Offices can no longer open the public websites of ChatGPT and Claude. The offices confirmed that in an email to SVT. The sentence they wrote is narrower than a ban on the companies: “The browser interface for the AI services ChatGPT and Claude will no longer be reachable from the Government Offices’ work computers from 26 October. Within Intric, staff still have access to the language models ChatGPT and Claude.” Intric is an internal platform. The public page is what has been switched off.
Staff are pointed at Microsoft’s Copilot instead. The offices told SVT that every employee has that tool, and that some AI services are being closed from Monday. Sveriges Radio reported that the reason is information security, and that the digitalisation director wrote on the intranet that the offices had seen several examples of problematic use of open AI services, and that using a service without a formal agreement can affect security. The offices say they reviewed Copilot and then tightened it. What they have published is the existence of a contract and a setting they control. They have not published the examples.
A browser, not a model
SVT notes that the Tax Agency and the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care have already put similar blocks in place, and that the Enforcement Authority is preparing the question. Those are other agencies, not this decision. The Government Offices are the Prime Minister’s Office and the ministries. A block on their work computers does not apply to a school, a hospital or a private phone.
The useful distinction is the one in the email. A civil servant can still be given ChatGPT or Claude, on a system the employer runs and can log. What they cannot do, from Monday, is open the consumer site and paste a ministerial draft into it. That is an access rule. It is not a finding that either model is unfit, and it is not a finding that Copilot is.