Sweden's AI Strategy Is a PDF, Not a Plan — And the Clock Is Running Out

Sweden's national AI strategy, critiqued by Arash Gilan in Breakit, suffers from three fatal flaws: a budget smaller than a Serie B round, zero mention of autonomous AI agents, and a complete absence of urgency. The strategy was written by people who have never shipped AI in production, and it shows. While Sweden has world-class AI talent and digital infrastructure, its policy apparatus is operating on government time while the technology advances on GPU time — a mismatch that risks turning one of Europe's most digitally advanced nations into an AI laggard.

A government AI strategy published in 2025 that never mentions the word 'agent' reveals that its authors' understanding of AI froze circa 2023 — making the strategy obsolete before it was even released.

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