BRUSSELS — What if artificial intelligence was running the European Union?
Politicians and governments around the world are flocking to AI tools to solve their problems. Prime ministers and civil servants are toying with chatbots. Brussels’ Eurocrats have their own in-house AI tool. Albania even delegated a whole ministerial portfolio to AI.
But what’s the situation on the 13th floor of the Brussels Berlaymont building, the office of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen?
Does von der Leyen turn to chatbots for guidance on tough political and policy decisions? And if so, which ones should she consult?
Von der Leyen’s office did not respond to POLITICO’s question on which chatbots she used.
So we ran the experiment ourselves.
POLITICO asked three different AI chatbots — U.S.-owned OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Mistral’s Le Chat from France and China’s DeepSeek — to imagine they’re a top adviser to von der Leyen.
We served the chatbots 13 questions covering von der Leyen’s thorniest political and policy queries of the day, ranging from how to deal with American President Donald Trump to how to keep her centrist coalition in Europe intact.
We asked them to provide answers that would grab the president’s attention: concise, high-level advice that avoids too many technical and legal terms. We told them to try to stand out among von der Leyen’s pack of advisers with wit and flair.
Now it’s your turn. We present you with the questions, and the different answers given by the three chatbots. It’s up to you to pick the best answer for each question.
Which chatbot would you choose to be von der Leyen’s top adviser? Which chatbot should rule Europe?
Political or policy positions taken by the chatbot do not reflect the positions of the company behind the bot.
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