Setting the AI Agenda -- Evidence from Sweden in the ChatGPT Era
<|reference_start|>Setting the AI Agenda -- Evidence from Sweden in the ChatGPT Era: 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.<|reference_end|>
@article{bruinsma2024setting,
    title={Setting the AI Agenda -- Evidence from Sweden in the ChatGPT Era},
    author={Bastiaan Bruinsma and Annika Fred'en and Kajsa Hansson and Moa
  Johansson and Pasko Kisi'c-Merino and Denitsa Saynova},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.16946},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.16946},
    primaryClass={cs.AI cs.CY}
}