Mathias Sundin

Artificial intelligence

😡 Critical of the government's meager AI budget

Sweden is losing ground in AI — but the government is still waiting.

Podcast

🎙️ Two new podcasts

I'm talking AI, Warp News, and being an angry optimist in two new podcasts.

Artificial intelligence

🦾 The Swedish government should appoint AI negotiators

Their task would be to negotiate with AI companies to provide all Swedes free access to AI services like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.

Hope

😀 On a list: One of 25 people spreading hope

The magazine Vi has listed 25 people who spread hope in troubled times. The angry optimist is one of them.

Democracy

📰 On Musk and Thiel in SvD

Interviewed in Svenska Dagbladet in Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and what happens when they clash with the ways of Washington.

Podcast

🎙️ Interviewed on a podcast about China and Deepseek

Discussion on the latest Chinese AI model, DeepSeek.

Artificial intelligence

🗳️ Better politics! Anyone opposed?

In Svenska Dagbladet and Fokus on the AI secretary I've built with two Members of Parliament.

Podcast

☕ Podcast: AI and coffee

Drinking coffee and talking AI.

Podcast

🎙️ 4 x podcasts

Talking about AI in four podcasts recorded in the past weeks.

AI commission

🤖 Unexpectedly satisfied with the AI Commission's report

I feared Sweden’s AI Commission would end up like so many others—vague compromises and little impact. But what happened instead surprised me.

My talks

🦾 WALL-Y at Tidsskriftsdagen

The Swedish Magazine Publishers Association had AI as the theme for this year's Magazine Day, and they were curious about WALL-Y.

Podcast

🎙️ On the AI Sweden podcast

About the AI Commission, wings for human ability, and how we can become centaurs.

AI masterclass

👨‍💻 Trained internet legends in AI

Turning Broadband Jesus into AI Jesus?

My talks

🇳.c. AI talks at University of North Carolina

Less than 24 hours in the US, but managed to give three talks at UNC Chapel Hill.

AI masterclass

🐶 Adding AI value to Pet Valu

At Pet Valu, a billion dollar Canadian pet retailer, I had an op-paw-tunity to unleash a fur-tastic AI training session for the company's top dogs.

Op-eds

🗞️ Generative AI is not the same thing as stealing

Illustrator Henrik Tamm made a strong statement in Svenska Dagbladet, arguing that generative AI is theft, and moreover, it should not be allowed for use by people who lack talent. I wrote a response.

Interviews

🎙️ Interview in Magasin T: "Everyone can learn the benefits of AI"

Swedish companies benefit from becoming better at managing the AI tools available. Magasin T: has met tech optimist Mathias Sundin. He warns of slow AI development, the risk of being overtaken by other countries, and advocates an AI check for all citizens.

Artificial intelligence

❌ In Quillette: Why Max Tegmark is wrong on AI doom

Pushing back against Max Tegmark's three main arguments why AI will kill us all.

Op-eds

⏩ In Expressen: Fast progress is safer than slow

Slow progress is more risky as it makes humanity more vulnerable to both natural and human-made dangers, without the tools to prevent or counter them.

AI masterclass

👨‍🏫 AI masterclass for EU staff in Sarajevo

Training staff from the EEAS, the EU's diplomatic arm, in how to use AI.

Artificial intelligence

☹️ In DI: Sweden is hurt by AI pessimists

Generative AI will be as important as the internet. For Sweden to benefit from it, we must stop producing world-leading AI pessimists and instead find the AI evangelists.

WALL-Y

🏆 WALL-Y nominated as Innovation of the Year

Each year the Newspaper Publishers Association organize the Newspaper of the Year awards, celebrating excellence across several categories. This year, my creation WALL-Y, is nominated in the category Innovation of the Year.

AI commission

🎙️ Podcast at SvD about the AI Commission

How is Sweden positioning itself in the era of AI? Is there anything we can do to assume a leadership position in this field, similar to during the IT boom of the 90s?

AI commission

🦾 Panel discussion at the 'AI in the nation's interest' event

Sweden should invest in that, the usage. For example, through an AI deduction, or an AI voucher. Every Swede gets a few hundred kronor each month to buy AI services with.

AI course

👨‍🏫 The first AI course - and the reviews are in

"A day to remember, one of those that not just 'nudges' lightly but actually pushes life into a new phase."