There is wide agreement that the social, political, and economic consequences of artificial intelligence and other automation technologies are contingent on the policies that said technologies are met with. Thus, policymakers can be said to play a crucial role in shaping the automated future. In light of this, the chapter presents some preliminary findings from qualitative interviews with political elites in Sweden regarding their views on automation and its expected implications for the Swedish labor market. The findings show that while the actors describe the topic of automation as uncontroversial, their understandings of the issue are clearly informed by fundamentally different views on the proper role of the state as well as the desirability of recent and expected restructurings of the labor market in the wake of technological developments. By highlighting these differences, the aim of the chapter is to contribute to a necessary politicization of the automation debate.