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Folkets AI-kommission
In 2025 I was part of Folkets AI-kommission, a newly formed network that wants citizens to have much more participation and influence over the ambitions to shape the future with new technology. On June 4, 2025 we submitted our consultation response to SOU 2025:12, the Swedish AI Commission's “Roadmap for Sweden”.
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- I wrote the response together with Fia Ewald, Jonna Steinrud, Maria Ottoson and Terese Raymond. Researchers and practitioners in informatics, human rights, digital cultures and media literacy, among others, signed it – and anyone who agrees can add their own name.
- The response covers, among other things, the narrow, techno-economic framing of the problem, the hurry factor as a democratic problem, privacy and security, the relationship between business and public administration, power, democracy and participation, and the definition of AI.
- When the Roadmap says that introducing “AI” in society will be system-wide, that should be recognized as a signal calling for calm and for tightening the processes – not as a starting gun to rush and run faster.
As one of the writers, the ethics questions are naturally close to my heart. But there is also an overarching political responsibility to scrutinize: the message of urgency, which routinely overlooks the most vulnerable; large sums of money, without reported calculations or follow-up, used to paint a “truth” about big gains in the future; and systems that require enormous amounts of personal data, with huge consequences for privacy and security.
What I worry most about is a misanthropic view of humans. The view of human beings as collections of numbers to run calculations on, to determine their access to society.
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