80% of Norwegian Public Sector to Use Chainsaws by End of Year, Government Says

Norway’s Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance today announced that it would require 80% of the public sector to adopt chainsaws by the end of 2025.

“We are very excited about the future of chainsaws” says the labour party head of the ministry, who definitely has a lot of experience with chainsaws, can definitely explain how they work, and also definitely didn’t first learn about them a few months ago at a business school breakfast seminar.

“Chainsaws is a technology that has served the forestry industry for several decades, and with the latest advancements in chainsaw technology it is now possible for anyone to use one. They have become so user friendly one can become an expert in an afternoon!”

When prompted to provide examples of how, say, the child welfare service would be expected to apply chainsaws in their daily operations, the ministry leader smiles, blinks, and slowly reverses out of the room.

In one incident, a local government worker eager to use the new chainsaw technology seriously wounded several co-workers in a horrible accident. In an official statement the responisible minister of the digitalisation ministry said that “even though things didn’t go exactly according to plan, we applaud every effort to use the new tech.”

The official press contact for the Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance has since refused to comment, referring to their online chainsaw strategy document for further information.

Postscript

The original concept of using chainsaws as an analogy for generative AI comes from this excellent essay by Scott Smitelli. He has graciously allowed me to steal it for this post.