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Large language models have been used by officials and politicians in a wide variety of ways.
The Conversation described ChatGPT as a "uniquely terrible tool"[ clarification needed ] for government ministers. [1]
Google released certain details of usage of Gemini by the governments of Iran, China, Russia and North Korea. [2]
The Australian Government has not issued a comprehensive directive on generative AI usage, leaving decisions to individual departments. In 2023, the Department of Home Affairs allowed ChatGPT use in limited circumstances, while the Australian Federal Police blocked it. [3]
Every state and territory, except South Australia, restricted the use of ChatGPT in public schools. [4] In 2024, NSWEduChat was rolled out to replace ChatGPT. [5]
In 2024, Austria used a chatbot based on ChatGPT to answer questions of the recipients of welfare. [6]
The Viennese government used ChatGPT to write an anthem for the city-state. [7]
City lawmakers in Porto Alegre enacted an ordinance, which was largely written using ChatGPT. [8]
As of 2024, use of ChatGPT varied considerably between different federal ministries. [9]
The digitalisation minister, Dirk Schrödter, announced that the government of Schleswig-Holstein would use ChatGPT in its administration. [10]
In 2025, the Ministry of Finance banned its employees from using ChatGPT and DeepSeek on government devices. [11]
In February 2023, the president of Israel Isaac Herzog delivered a speech that had partially been written using ChatGPT. [12]
In March 2025, reporting by +972 Magazine revealed the development of a large language model by Unit 8200, an intelligence unit of the Israeli Defence Forces. [13]
In January 2025, the Japanese Government launched a large language model tool to help doctors in diagnosing patients. [14]
In February 2025, the Korean governemnt announced a plan to develop a Korean LLM with an investment of approximately ₩1,000,000,000,000. [15]
In October 2024, the New Zealand Government launched its GovGPT pilot. [16]
In February 2025, the Polish government announced the launch of PLLuM, the Polish Large Language Model, designed to specialise in content in the Polish language. [17]
In March 2025, the New Scientist revealed it had obtained science minister Peter Kyle's ChatGPT prompts. [18] The topics of Kyle's prompts included policy advice, which podcasts to appear on and the definitions of various scientific terms. [19] Peter Kyle's use of ChatGPT was defended by Sam Sharps of the Tony Blair Institute. [20]
In 2024, the Government of the United Kingdom launched Gov.uk Chat to provide guidance on business rules and support. [21] In 2025, the UK Government started to develop Humphrey, named after the character in Yes Minister, as a large language model tool for civil servants and the Cabinet Office expanded trials of its Redbox Copilot project. [22] [23]
Whistleblowers have alleged that civil servants have written government policy papers with the assistance of ChatGPT. [24]
In 2023, MS Tom Giffard delivered a speech which had been written nearly completely using ChatGPT. [25]
In 2025, OpenAI released ChatGPT Gov, a version of ChatGPT designed for federal government agencies. [26]
According to reporting by the Verge, tariffs in the second Trump administration may have been assigned based on a formula written using ChatGPT. [27]
In May 2024, Californian state agencies started to develop generative AI tools to solve common operational challenges. [28]
State lawmakers in New York passed legislation preventing agencies of the state government from replacing human workers with artificial intelligence. [29]