Committee for Technological Innovation and Ethics
Sweden · Governance body · Swedish Government
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A Swedish government committee established to address policy challenges related to emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles, and precision medicine. The committee worked to identify regulatory barriers and propose policy solutions to accelerate responsible technological innovation while protecting privacy and ethics. It operated from 2018 until 2022.
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Sweden aims to pioneer responsible development and use of future technologies
Sweden is establishing a government committee to address ethical, legal and regulatory challenges created by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and precision medicine. The initiative aims to remove obstacles to innovation while ensuring that Sweden can serve as a testing ground for responsible technology deployment.
Rapid pace of development
The committee will identify conflicting objectives and regulatory barriers that hinder responsible use of emerging technologies including self-driving vehicles and fifth-generation wireless systems, and will propose solutions. The committee will work with international partners to develop coordinated approaches, since technological advancement is global and outdated rules may impede beneficial applications.
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- ObligationApplies to: Public authorityDrafted by the Index
The Government is appointing a Committee to address the challenges that emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and precision medicine create for ethics, privacy and regulation, and to create conditions for accelerated technology use.
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The committee should identify conflicting objectives, regulatory barriers and obstacles that prevent responsible development and use of emerging technologies such as autonomous vehicles, connected systems and fifth-generation wireless networks.
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The committee should propose solutions to regulatory barriers and obstacles that prevent responsible use of emerging technologies.
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The committee should cooperate with international partners and other countries to develop coordinated approaches to emerging technology governance because innovation is global in nature.
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