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Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?

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  • Malin Rönnblom
  • Vanja Carlsson
  • Andreas Öjehag‐Pettersson

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Over the past few decades, Sweden has established itself as a “world leader” in gender equality. Alongside this development, Swedish politicians have also initiated ambitious plans that aim to establish the country as “world class” in terms of digitalization. International research shows that women and racialized groups are in a minority in the design processes, that AI facial recognition systems are built with white male faces as the norm, and that digital tools replicate racial injustices. In this paper, we are interested in if, and if so how, gender equality is articulated and thus filled with meaning in national policies on AI and digitalization. The overall aim is to discuss the potential of gender (equality) mainstreaming to challenge systems of privilege in the implementation of AI systems in the public sector. The paper analyses how gender equality is filled with meaning in national policy documents on AI and gender equality. The main findings show that gender equality is turned into a question of lack of knowledge and information, which in turn blocks out an understanding of gender equality as something that is related to gendered power relations. Durante las últimas décadas, Suecia se ha establecido como un “líder mundial” en igualdad de género. Junto con este desarrollo, los políticos suecos también han iniciado planes ambiciosos que apuntan a establecer al país como de “clase mundial” en términos de digitalización. La investigación internacional muestra que las mujeres y los grupos racializados son una minoría en los procesos de diseño, que los sistemas de reconocimiento facial de IA se construyen con rostros de hombres blancos como norma y que las herramientas digitales replican las injusticias raciales. En este documento, nos interesa saber si la igualdad de género se articula y, por lo tanto, se llena de significado en las políticas nacionales sobre IA y digitalización y, de ser así, cómo. El objetivo general es discutir el potencial de la integración de género (igualdad) para desafiar los sistemas de privilegio en la implementación de sistemas de IA en el sector público. El documento analiza cómo la igualdad de género se llena de significado en los documentos de política nacional sobre IA e igualdad de género. Los principales hallazgos muestran que la igualdad de género se convierte en una cuestión de falta de conocimiento e información, lo que a su vez bloquea la comprensión de la igualdad de género como algo relacionado con las relaciones de poder de género. 过去几十年,瑞典在性别平等方面已取得了“世界领导者”的地位。除了这一发展,瑞典政客还启动了雄心勃勃的计划,旨在将该国的数字化进程建设成为“世界级”。国际研究表明,女性和种族化群体较少参与政策设计过程、人工智能面部识别系统以白人男性面孔为标准、数字工具重现了种族不公正。本文中,我们研究的是,性别平等是否以及如何在关于人工智能和数字化的国家政策中得以阐明并因此具有意义。总体目标是探讨性别(平等)主流化的潜力,以挑战公共部门人工智能系统实施中的特权制度。本文分析了性别平等在有关人工智能和性别平等的国家政策文件中是如何被赋予意义的。主要研究结果表明,性别平等变成了“缺乏知识和信息”这一问题,这反过来阻碍了对“将性别平等与性别化的权力关系相联系”的理解。.

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  • Malin Rönnblom & Vanja Carlsson & Andreas Öjehag‐Pettersson, 2023. "Gender equality in Swedish AI policies. What's the problem represented to be?," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 40(5), pages 688-704, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:40:y:2023:i:5:p:688-704
    DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12547
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