Revisited inscriptions – roadmaps and anticipations of AI and education in the datafied welfare state
Mörtsell, Sara LU
(2025)
7th Nordic STS conference
- Abstract (Swedish)
- The rapid development of generative AI has prompted a surge in future-oriented documents on a wide range of anticipated educational concern within the Nordic welfare state. Among these, the roadmap has become an increasingly popular foresight technique, exemplified by the AI Commission’s Roadmap for Sweden, which is the focus of the paper. Mobilised within an anticipatory regime of future thinking, these documents shape what the future ought to be for AI and education. This paper explores what makes the future of AI and education seem reasonable by revisiting STS methodologies that trace document practices, such as those influenced by generative AI chatbots in the case of the Roadmap. Emphasising the document rather than the text... (More)
- The rapid development of generative AI has prompted a surge in future-oriented documents on a wide range of anticipated educational concern within the Nordic welfare state. Among these, the roadmap has become an increasingly popular foresight technique, exemplified by the AI Commission’s Roadmap for Sweden, which is the focus of the paper. Mobilised within an anticipatory regime of future thinking, these documents shape what the future ought to be for AI and education. This paper explores what makes the future of AI and education seem reasonable by revisiting STS methodologies that trace document practices, such as those influenced by generative AI chatbots in the case of the Roadmap. Emphasising the document rather than the text (Strathern, 2006), the argument posits that the Roadmap’s good practice can be scrutinised through its temporalities (doing it now), effectiveness (doing it well) and uncontroversial assumptions (doing the right thing). This scrutiny demonstrates how certain futures of AI and education take precedence over others as a sociotechnical effect rather than as a powerful technology. (Less)
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- Mörtsell, Sara
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- 2025
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- 7th Nordic STS conference
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- Stockholm, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2025-06-11 - 2025-06-13
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- English
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abstract = {{The rapid development of generative AI has prompted a surge in future-oriented documents on a wide range of anticipated educational concern within the Nordic welfare state. Among these, the roadmap has become an increasingly popular foresight technique, exemplified by the AI Commission’s Roadmap for Sweden, which is the focus of the paper. Mobilised within an anticipatory regime of future thinking, these documents shape what the future ought to be for AI and education. This paper explores what makes the future of AI and education seem reasonable by revisiting STS methodologies that trace document practices, such as those influenced by generative AI chatbots in the case of the Roadmap. Emphasising the document rather than the text (Strathern, 2006), the argument posits that the Roadmap’s good practice can be scrutinised through its temporalities (doing it now), effectiveness (doing it well) and uncontroversial assumptions (doing the right thing). This scrutiny demonstrates how certain futures of AI and education take precedence over others as a sociotechnical effect rather than as a powerful technology.}},
author = {{Mörtsell, Sara}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{Revisited inscriptions – roadmaps and anticipations of AI and education in the datafied welfare state}},
year = {{2025}},
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