Death by a thousand papercuts: professionals’ imaginaries on ethicalization and technological determinism of AI in Sweden
While Sweden’s sociotechnical identity relies on a firm foundation of the welfare state and a frontrunner status, its artificial intelligence (AI) trajectory increasingly clashes with global market realities. Analyzing interviews with 13 professionals across the industrial, governmental, and security sectors, this article investigates the reconfiguration of competing Swedish sociotechnical imagina