Updated 2026-06-02 | Published 2026-06-01
The employment agency wants to fire IT director Krister Dackland.
A Chinese language model and advertising for suppliers is behind the decision, Aftonbladet learns.
– The overall picture is problematic, says press manager Hans G Larsson to Aftonbladet.
The IT director at The employment agency Krister Dackland has been suspended since December 12 last year. Now the authority wants him to be fired, reports the newspaper Publikt.
The background is, in part, repeated whistle-blowing about, among other things, the work with AI within the authority.
– We have said that it concerns basically four areas. Security linked to IT development, management of business trips and invoices, deficiencies in recruitment and also that he appeared in advertising for suppliers, says
The fact that Krister Dackland appeared in an advertising article for Cap Gemini in Dagens Industri was the starting point for the investigation against him, but it gradually grew.
– The overall picture is problematic and we have confirmed that he should be fired, says press manager Hans G Larsson to Aftonbladet.
Suspended in connection with review
Krister Dackland was suspended in connection with Aftonbladet starting to write about the authority’s work with AI, at the end of 2025. Aftonbladet then described how the authority was building a large control platform which would remedy incorrect payments with the help of advanced data models, but also with extensive collection of information about the unemployed and their relatives.
In Aftonbladet’s review, we were also able to show that the development of the project was ongoing without even knowing whether the project was compliant with the law.
In the advertising text in which Krister Dackland appeared, he talked about that particular control platform.
Several sources have told Aftonbladet how there was internal dissatisfaction with the authority’s focus on AI, that technology development was prioritized over things being done the right way.
According to consistent information, the decisive point against Krister Dackland must have been the internal language model from China that the Employment Service had installed. It was supposed to help employees find information, but when employees asked questions about Tiananmen Square, it gave evasive and outright wrong answers.
The software was installed on servers with no connection to the network and there should never have been any danger of data leakage of sensitive information.
But the model ran without CEO Maria Hemström Hemmingsson being informed about it.
“That was the limit and Krister Dackland was ordered to shut it down immediately when it was discovered,” says a source.
The authority has now submitted a request for him to be fired from his post to the State’s Accountability Committee, which makes a decision on the matter. Pending the board’s decision, Dackland’s suspension continues.
In parallel with his suspension, two additional managers from the IT department have been suspended and investigated. The two are still suspended while the investigations are ongoing.
