What six days of debate in a medieval town on Gotland reveal about where AI conversations in Sweden are actually heading. I spent an afternoon last week trying to explain Almedalen to a colleague visiting from Seoul. She kept asking which company organizes it, who owns the stage, who approves the speakers. I had to tell her: nobody does. A public park in Visby , open to anyone who shows up with something to say. She looked at me like I'd described a system that shouldn't work. And yet it's been running since 1968. The setting. Almedalen Week is Sweden's annual gathering in Visby, on the island of Gotland, held every year in late June. It started when Olof Palme , then a government minister, gave a speech from the back of a truck in a public park. Since 1991, all eight of Sweden's parliamentary parties have taken turns speaking there, and since 1996 companies and organizations have been welcome too. There's no central organizer deciding who gets airtime. A...