Setting the AI Agenda : Evidence from Sweden in the ChatGPT Era

Summary, in Swedish

This paper examines the development of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) meta-debate in Sweden before and after the release of ChatGPT. From the perspective of agenda-setting theory, we propose that it is an elite outside of party politics that is leading the debate – i.e. that the politicians are relatively silent when it comes to this rapid development. We also suggest that the debate has become more substantive
and risk-oriented in recent years. To investigate this claim, we draw on an original dataset of elite-level documents from the early 2010s to the present, using op-eds published in a number of leading Swedish newspapers. By conducting a qualitative content analysis of these materials, our preliminary findings lend support to the expectation that an academic, rather than a political elite is steering the debate.

• Författare: Bastiaan Bruinsma; Annika Fredén; Kajsa Hansson; Moa Johansson; Pasko Kisić-Merino; Denitsa Saynova
• Avdelning/ar: LU profilområde: Naturlig och artificiell kognition; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
• Publiceringsår: 2024-10-20
• Språk: Engelska
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: CEUR Workshop Proceedings
• Volym: 3808
• Länkar: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3808/paper1.pdf
• Dokumenttyp: Konferensbidrag
• Förlag: CEUR-WS
• Ämne: Social Sciences; Computer and Information Sciences
• Nyckelord: agenda setting; AI debate; AI risk; qualitative content analysis; Sweden; AI; bias; agenda-setting
• Conference name: 2nd Workshop on Fairness and Bias in AI, AEQUITAS 2024
• Conference date: 2024-10-20
• Conference place: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Aktiv: Published
• Projekt: Bias and methods of AI technology studying political behavior
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1613-0073