European Parliament's AI chatbot gives false answer about first president of European Commission
In October 2024, the European Parliament selected Anthropic's Claude AI model to operate a historical archive chatbot, 'Ask the EP Archives', where citizens can ask questions. An examination by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties revealed that Claude gave an incorrect answer to the question "Who was the first president of the European Commission?", stating "Robert Schuman 7", which is likely the address of a cafe. The Parliament did not assess non-LLM alternatives and relied on Anthropic's claims of 'Constitutional AI' without independent evaluation. The chatbot is hosted on Amazon AWS and may involve unlawful processing of personal data under the GDPR.
- Date it happened
- 2025-04-03
- Organisation involved
- European Parliament
- Product, system or model
- Claude (Anthropic)
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