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

Summary, in English

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.

• Author: Bastiaan Bruinsma; Annika Fredén; Kajsa Hansson; Moa Johansson; Pasko Kisić-Merino; Denitsa Saynova
• Department/s: LU Profile Area: Natural and Artificial Cognition; Department of Political Science
• Publishing year: 2024-10-20
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: CEUR Workshop Proceedings
• Volume: 3808
• Links: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3808/paper1.pdf
• Document type: Conference paper
• Publisher: CEUR-WS
• Topic: Social Sciences; Computer and Information Science
• Keywords: 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
• Status: Published
• Project: Bias and methods of AI technology studying political behavior
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1613-0073