Data is not like oil. It's better.
14.12.25
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Data is not like oil. It's better.

Silvija Seres

Data lacks what we had for oil: an institutional architecture around the resource.

Pseudocode is easy -- politics is hard. The AI Commanders Build the Bridge
12.12.25
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Pseudocode is easy -- politics is hard. The AI Commanders Build the Bridge

Silvija Seres

if/else solves nothing in an adaptive, complex system like Norway. AI policy requires systems understanding, considerations of nature, security and voter acceptance—and it requires common principles before we can write the concrete features.

Norway contributes to the growth of others
14.12.25
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Norway contributes to the growth of others

Silvija Seres
Christer Tryggestad

AI is becoming the most important infrastructure of our time. Norway has significant financial interests, but is falling behind in the industrial sector. It makes us rich as investors -- and vulnerable as business.

Data centers aren't the problem -- poor prioritization is
8.12.25
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Data centers aren't the problem -- poor prioritization is

Silvija Seres
Aksel Braanen Sterri

Data centers are portrayed as a threat to Norwegian industry and the power system. The figures show that the risks lie in unclear frameworks, not in the data centres themselves.

Norway needs a new national project
20.11.25
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Norway needs a new national project

Silvija Seres
Aksel Braanen Sterri

Norway and Europe must find a third way in the shadow of China and the United States.

Data centers are the infrastructure of the future — not a sidetrack in energy policy
19.11.25
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Data centers are the infrastructure of the future — not a sidetrack in energy policy

Silvija Seres

The debate over data centers is dominated by concerns about power use and nature encroachment. But data centers are becoming a new form of critical infrastructure. The crucial question is not how many we will have, but what terms Norway will govern them according to.

AI er ikke et teknologiprosjekt
2.11.25
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AI er ikke et teknologiprosjekt

Silvija Seres

AI eller KI gjør med kunnskapsarbeid det industrialiseringen gjorde med manuelt arbeid – flytter produktivitet, marginer og konkurranse. Likevel mislykkes over 80 prosent av prosjektene, fordi de behandles som teknologi, ikke som kultur og infrastruktur.

A sea of data
29.10.25
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A sea of data

Silvija Seres

Norway is in the process of building a digital twin of the ocean, but we use it primarily for reporting, not for innovation.

School should teach kids how to navigate the future
30.10.25
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School should teach kids how to navigate the future

Silvija Seres

We will not be able to live without a mobile phone, nor will we do without artificial intelligence. Yet school protects children from the tools they must learn to master.

The Ten AI Commandments Link Principles to Politics
28.10.25
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The Ten AI Commandments Link Principles to Politics

Silvija Seres
Aksel Braanen Sterri

The committee's report proposes 44 concrete measures for Norway to build competence, capacity and supervision in the KIC economy.

The machine can find shortcuts in the tank
19.10.25
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The machine can find shortcuts in the tank

Silvija Seres

A machine has improved one of computer science's most fundamental ideas -- Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm. It marks a turning point, where the boundary between human insight and machine computation is blurring.

We need a research institute for AI security
17.10.25
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We need a research institute for AI security

Silvija Seres

Artificial intelligence will be our next societal infrastructure. In order to trust it, we need to understand how it learns, reasons and influences us back. Norway should establish a research institute for AI security — not as supervision, but as an arena for insight, values and robust societal understanding.

Ten Commandments for KI
22.10.25
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Ten Commandments for KI

Silvija Seres
Langsikts ekspertutvalg på kunstig intelligens

Artificial intelligence has enormous potential to increase human welfare, but also involves unprecedented dangers.

The Ten Commandments of AI
23.10.25
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The Ten Commandments of AI

Silvija Seres
Langsikts ekspertutvalg på kunstig intelligens
Tellef Solbakk Raabe

For AI and data to create value for everyone.

Ten commandments for long-term and value-added AI
24.6.25
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Ten commandments for long-term and value-added AI

Silvija Seres

Norway needed a vision for oil — now we need one for data and artificial intelligence. A AI committee consisting of 15 experts will draw up 10 KI and data budgets for Norway. The bids will be announced at the end of October.

The oil fund - a prisoner's dilemma
27.7.25
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The oil fund - a prisoner's dilemma

Silvija Seres

Strategic incentives can lead everyone to want to hedge as much as possible, but long-term it weakens the community's value.

Choose the educations AI can't take away from you!
10.4.25
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Choose the educations AI can't take away from you!

Aksel Braanen Sterri
Silvija Seres

Here are seven pieces of advice for adolescents -- and parents -- wondering what, and if, they should study in the age of artificial intelligence.