Politicians are letting AI write speeches and laws without telling voters, study says | Euronews
Politicians are letting AI write speeches and laws without telling voters, study says | Euronews
摘要: Politicians are letting AI write speeches and laws without telling voters, study says
The Swedish parliament (Riksdagen) votes on new justice legisla
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Politicians are letting AI write speeches and laws without telling voters, study says
The Swedish parliament (Riksdagen) votes on new justice legislation in Stockholm, Monday, June 15, 2026
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Roselyne Min
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03/09/2026 - 12:03 GMT+2
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Researchers found AI-written text in up to 15% of parliamentary speeches in the UK and Sweden, with zero disclosure to voters.
Politicians in Sweden and the UK appear to be increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to help write parliamentary texts without disclosing it, according to a new
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Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and Edinburgh Napier University in the UK analysed 13,565 Swedish parliamentary motions and 4,209 UK parliamentary statements published between 2021 and April 2026 using AI detectors trained to distinguish between human and large language model-generated political writing.
The researchers found that about 15% of UK parliamentary statements analysed in 2026 contained at least one paragraph classified as AI-generated.
In Sweden, 9.4% of motions submitted during the 2025–2026 parliamentary year contained at least one paragraph classified as AI-assisted, equivalent to around 300 motions.
Yet researchers said they found no disclosure of AI use in any of the texts they identified.
That marks a sharp increase in both countries. The figure stood at about 3.5% in the UK in 2022 and 1.7% in Sweden in the 2022–2023 period.
Jan Riise, an MP for Sweden’s Miljöpartiet, the Green Party, and its spokesperson on AI and digitalisation, said he was “not surprised” by the findings in the Swedish case.
He told Euronews Next that the party uses AI for “research purposes” and has an internal