Many in business are worried that Sweden is falling behind when it comes to AI development.
The US leads the AI race
Partly in comparison with tech-leading USA, but also in comparison with other countries in Europe. Sweden is an engineering country and has had a leading role in many technological leaps over the decades.
For example, in telecoms, the automotive industry, steel and the expansion of the broadband network, Sweden has long held the leadership position.
High tax on AI development in Sweden
But with AI, it’s different. Therefore, voices are now being raised about why the development of technical innovation can be deducted from the tax for the companies, but not for the training of the staff.
This means that countries such as Austria, Ireland and Germany have a huge head start when it comes to companies that want to train their employees in the use and development of AI and AI methods.
Women are most affected
It will be women’s jobs that are most affected by the AI transition, according to three independent studies. It reports Voices.
Almost one in five men (19 percent) use AI in some way, compared to just over one in ten (11 percent) of the women in the survey. It is thus twice as common for men to use AI than for women to do so at present.
In addition, 70 percent of the responding women stated that they had also never tried AI, reports Industritorget.
Increased injustice
AI development will, at least initially, increase inequality. According to an analysis from the International Monetary Fund, IMF, the application of AI in the labor market also comes with a serious consequence.
“In most scenarios, AI will worsen equality in general,” says the IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva.
It reports, among other things Break it.
She believes that the imbalance will increase inequality both between countries, income groups and between older and younger people.
In addition, two out of three of the jobs that will be replaced by AI are jobs that have traditionally been dominated by women, such as office assistants for example. This is announced by the UN’s labor market agency ILO.
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