Pluralism, and a call to Olof Palme.

#ensakidag 501: AI pluralism, and a conversation with Olof Palme

Today I called Olof Palme. For real, sort of.

Someone in the AI Party (whose politics I hardly share) has vibe-coded a site: turn “Ring Olof Palme” into one word and move the dot into the name, between Pal and me, and you get RingOlofPal.me. There’s a voice agent there, built on ElevenLabs. Press a button and have a conversation with Palme. Charming, a little eerie, surprisingly good.

But that isn’t the point. The point is what it says about where we are. Because in the same episode, I talk about what really excites me right now: pluralism. The answer to “are we too dependent on the US?” is not to wait for the EU or some Swedish government to build an AI for us. It’s to spread things out. Run several models against each other, specialist services such as Perplexity or Elicit, a small model directly on your phone (Gemma 4), or build your own cluster. I did the numbers: a serious on-premises setup at Volvo Trucks scale comes to around 10 million in hardware and 30,000 a month in electricity. Expensive for one, entirely possible for many together. Are you listening, Helsingborg?

And Fable 5 is back for a couple more days before it gets locked behind the API on 7 July, so make the most of it.

But above all: build something. Carin Winberg sat down with Lovable and solved her own storage-clearout problem. That’s enough. That’s how we get started.

Come on. Build something this weekend. Do a Carin. But if nothing else, call Palme, talk AI, and tell us in a comment what you work out.

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