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Artificial intelligence

🤖 Takeaway from Di Tech Strategy Summit: The new AI is nothing like the old one

I noticed something troubling.

Artificial intelligence

📗 The Fifth Acceleration will be released on Nov. 3 (don’t miss the launch offer)

Don’t miss the launch offer with 10% off – and help give the book a strong start in Sweden.

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😡 Critical of the government's meager AI budget

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

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🦾 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.

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

🎙️ 4 x podcasts

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

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.

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.

Max Tegmark

☹️ Writing about Max Tegmark and Paul Ehrlich in Fokus

In the magazine Fokus, I write about AI doomer Max Tegmark and compare him with the arch pessimist Paul Ehrlich.

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🦾 Member of the Swedish government's AI commission

The Swedish government has set up an AI commission, as declared by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. The commission is headed by Carl-Henric Svanberg, former CEO of Ericsson, with me as one of its members.