Setting the AI Agenda -- Evidence from Sweden in the ChatGPT Era
Abstract
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.
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@article{arxiv.2409.16946,
title = {Setting the AI Agenda -- Evidence from Sweden in the ChatGPT Era},
author = {Bastiaan Bruinsma and Annika Fredén and Kajsa Hansson and Moa Johansson and Pasko Kisić-Merino and Denitsa Saynova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.16946},
year = {2024}
}
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This paper is part of the Second AEQUITAS Workshop on Fairness and Bias in AI | co-located with ECAI 2024, October 19--24, 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain