Setting the AI Agenda : Evidence from Sweden in the ChatGPT Era
Bruinsma, Bastiaan ; Fredén, Annika LU
; Hansson, Kajsa
LU
; Johansson, Moa
; Kisić-Merino, Pasko
and Saynova, Denitsa
(2024)
2nd Workshop on Fairness and Bias in AI, AEQUITAS 2024
In CEUR Workshop Proceedings
3808.
- 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... (More)
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.
(Less)- Abstract (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... (More) - 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. (Less)
- author
- Bruinsma, Bastiaan
; Fredén, Annika
LU
; Hansson, Kajsa
LU
; Johansson, Moa
; Kisić-Merino, Pasko
and Saynova, Denitsa
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-10-20
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- agenda setting, AI debate, AI risk, qualitative content analysis, Sweden, AI, bias, agenda-setting
- host publication
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings : 2nd Workshop on Fairness and Bias in AI - 2nd Workshop on Fairness and Bias in AI
- series title
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
- volume
- 3808
- pages
- 14 pages
- publisher
- CEUR-WS
- conference name
- 2nd Workshop on Fairness and Bias in AI, AEQUITAS 2024
- conference location
- Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- conference dates
- 2024-10-20
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85210006519
- ISSN
- 1613-0073
- project
- Bias and methods of AI technology studying political behavior
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2024 Copyright for this paper by its authors.
- id
- ce88c330-d0e4-4eea-b1af-e93e97926677
- alternative location
- https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3808/paper1.pdf
- date added to LUP
- 2025-01-28 13:55:53
- date last changed
- 2025-05-06 20:33:50
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