DKK 14.7 million goes to AI assistants in central and local government

On Nov. 5, the Finance Committee approved a supplementary appropriation that spends DKK 14.7 million in 2026 on three large-scale AI projects in the public sector. The money comes from a reserve of DKK 25.0 million per year in 2026-2029. The sources do not say what will happen to the rest of the reserve.

The appropriation builds on an agreement from Dec. 15, 2025 between the then government, KL (Local Government Denmark) and Danish Regions. The three projects cover automatic documentation, digital assistants for employees and digital assistants for citizens and businesses.

Assistant for government employees

The Danish Agency for Economic Affairs (Økonomistyrelsen) receives DKK 8.8 million for digital assistants for central government employees. The agency is developing StatGPT, a general-purpose AI tool, along with the first specialized assistants for repetitive tasks such as note-taking. Each institution can build its own assistants, but it is not yet possible to build autonomous agents, meaning AI that acts on its own.

The plan is to roll the project out to 117 government institutions on Jan. 1, 2027. The rollout will happen in waves, and employees are to be involved and upskilled along the way.

Økonomistyrelsen says that data in StatGPT is stored in Statens It, and that employees can use a locally hosted language model with no dependence on foreign vendors. According to the agency, this strengthens Denmark's digital sovereignty. That is the agency's own assessment.

Chat for citizens and businesses

Digitaliseringsstyrelsen receives DKK 2.0 million and Erhvervsstyrelsen DKK 1.0 million. Digitaliseringsstyrelsen is to build a shared infrastructure for digital assistants that can be used widely across the public sector. The goal is new chat functions for guidance, for example on tax matters, and fewer guidance tasks for public employees.

The assistant is being developed together with the vendor Nine A/S. According to Digitaliseringsstyrelsen, using open source and open-weight language models is a central priority. Under the plan, the solution is to be operated by vendors in the EU, and it must be possible to swap language models and vendors. The first version is expected to launch on borger.dk and sundhed.dk in September 2027. Risk assessments and impact analyses have been initiated.

Transcripts of citizen conversations

KL receives a grant of DKK 2.9 million for speech-to-text technology that will produce transcripts of conversations with citizens in the employment area in 64 municipalities. The amount is the remaining funding for the project, which received DKK 13.4 million in December 2025.

The municipalities choose their own AI solution and are themselves responsible for GDPR and the AI Act, KL says. KL has no overview of how the municipalities are implementing the technology, but has the impression that employees and users are closely involved.

The questions to the minister were asked at the request of Victoria Velasquez (EL). Minister Christina Egelund answered on Nov. 4. The information about security and involvement comes from the authorities and KL themselves.