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Applied AI in Sweden

Sweden's entries are commercial and clinical — Klarna generating most of its marketing copy, AI mammography finding 29% more cancers in a trial of 105,934 women — with a national AI strategy still to come.

AI readiness
0.75
Rank 10 of 171 — IMF AI Preparedness Index
On the record
4
entries across 3 industries
National programme
2025
AI Commission's Roadmap for Sweden (SOU 2025:12)
National programme

AI Commission's Roadmap for Sweden (SOU 2025:12)

Announced 2025. Its pillars are data infrastructure, skills and research, public-sector AI.

Services 67% · Industry 21% · Agriculture 1.5% of gross value added — World Bank, 2025

Kind
Role
4 entries

Government & Public Sector

2

Skatteverket and Försäkringskassan opened AI-verkstaden, a shared environment for public bodies, while Chalmers researchers found 9.4% of parliamentary motions carry AI-written text.

Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorSweden4 Sep 2026

Nearly one in ten Swedish parliamentary motions carry AI-written text

Chalmers University of Technology — Chalmers University of Technology researchers found in a preprint, not yet peer reviewed, that 9.4 per cent of motions tabled in Sweden's Riksdag in the 2025–26 parliamentary year had at least one paragraph judged to be written with generative AI. None of these uses was openly declared. The detectors were trained on Swedish and British parliamentary texts from before chatbots, and show the share climbing from near zero in 2021–22.

cioanalytics.se
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorSweden1 Jul 2026

Swedish agencies open a shared AI workshop for public bodies

Skatteverket and Försäkringskassan — Sweden's tax agency Skatteverket and social insurance agency Försäkringskassan have begun trial operation of AI-verkstaden, a shared AI workshop that helps agencies, municipalities and regions build and use AI. Ten pilot organisations joined first, including Region Halland and Mörbylånga municipality, testing redaction, transcription and digital-assistant AI services. The pilots were picked to span different sizes and levels of technical maturity, the agencies said.

Public-sector caseworkerskatteverket.se

Healthcare & Life Sciences

1

AI mammography detected 29% more cancers in a trial of 105,934 women.

Evidence of impactHealthcare & Life SciencesSweden2026

AI mammography detects 29% more cancers in a 105,934-woman trial

In the MASAI randomised controlled trial of 105,934 Swedish women using the Transpara reading-support tool, AI mammography found 29% more cancers than standard double reading, cut radiologists' reading workload by ~44% and did not increase false positives (interim, Lancet Oncology 2023). Final results (The Lancet, 29 January 2026) add safety endpoints: ~12% fewer interval cancers (1.55 vs 1.76 per 1,000), 27% fewer aggressive (non-luminal-A) cancers and screen-detection sensitivity of 81% vs 74%.

thelancet.com

Marketing & Creative

1

Klarna says AI produces about 80% of its marketing copy — the company's own figure.

DeploymentMarketing & CreativeSweden2024

Klarna's AI produces about 80% of its marketing copy

Swedish fintech Klarna says an internal Copy Assistant writes about 80 per cent of its marketing copy, alongside generative-AI image tools such as Midjourney, DALL-E and Adobe Firefly. In May 2024 it reported image-production costs down around $6 million and the image cycle cut to seven days from six weeks, crediting AI with roughly $10 million in yearly marketing savings and 25 per cent less external agency spend. Later cutbacks to its AI customer-service agents left marketing untouched, and these figures were never retracted.

Marketerklarna.com
Latest on the record
  • Evidence of adoptionNearly one in ten Swedish parliamentary motions carry AI-written textGovernment & Public Sector4 Sep 2026cioanalytics.se
  • Evidence of impactAI mammography detects 29% more cancers in a 105,934-woman trialHealthcare & Life Sciences2026thelancet.com
  • DeploymentKlarna's AI produces about 80% of its marketing copyMarketing & Creative2024klarna.com
Europe
Sweden0.75United Kingdom0.73Czechia—Hungary—Estonia—Belarus—European Union0.66Albania—Germany0.75Netherlands0.77Switzerland—Andorra—Croatia—Russia—Belgium0.67France0.70Guernsey—Italy0.62Malta—Serbia—Spain0.65Austria0.72Gibraltar—Iceland—Slovakia—Bosnia and Herzegovina—Denmark0.78Finland—Greece—Ireland0.69Latvia—Moldova—Montenegro—Poland0.60Ukraine—
Method and sources

Every entry on this page is a named organisation putting AI to work in a real job, taken from the State of Applied AI record. Each one is traced to the report it came from and dated, and where a figure is the organisation’s own the entry says so rather than presenting it as an independent result. Readiness, ecosystem and policy figures, where shown, are attributed on the card to the body that published them.

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