Our work
Here you will find all our work and everything others write about us. We are constantly working to produce new content, including notes, consultation input, chronicles and debate posts.
Highlighted
Nyeste
Priority areas
All publications
More knowledge-based aid. What's the next step?
Tighter budgets and new crises make it even more important to have knowledge-based and cost-effective aid. Norway is already doing a lot to make this happen, but we have more to go on. A working group has presented a report with new recommendations.
Improving the efficiency of Norwegian aid through the UN and the World Bank
In 2023, 31.7 billion Norwegian kroner (54% of Norway's aid budget) was allocated through multilateral organizations, with the UN system and the World Bank Group being the two main recipients. This note presents recommendations to the government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Norad on how the foreign service can become a more effective and coordinated donor to Norway's largest partners. We focus on the UN system and the World Bank in this first note of the series.
An invisible environmental poison costs millions of lives
Lead in food and paint causes health damage to millions of children every year. Poor countries in particular have a long way to go.
Salmon suffering is Norway's darkest secret
... and the government does nothing. Here are four steps that can help with Norway's biggest animal welfare disaster.
AI must be democratic and cheap
Last week, the leading AI company Open AI announced that the premium version of the best Chat GPT model will go from costing $20 to $200 a month. So you have to spend 25,000 Norwegian kroner a year if you want the latest technology from Silicon Valley.
California has declared a state of emergency. The bird flu could become a global pandemic.
We are in a race against the clock.
Hello, power cable opponents. Can any of you show me where I'm wrong?
High electricity prices are a blessing.
Norwegian aid 2025 - what do the different parties think?
We have looked at the parties' alternative aid budget. Here's what we found.
Media coverage
Ny teknologi lar deg «prate» med de døde: – Kan forkludre sorgen
Fagsjef Aksel Braanen Sterri er intervjuet om etikken rundt å bruke KI til å prate med de døde.
Mer bistand – mindre eliteklubber
Rødt vil styrke internasjonal solidaritet, skriver Bjørnar Moxnes. Han referer til både daglig leder Eirik Mofoss og fagrådsmedlem Jon Lomøy.
Utviklingsminister Åsmund Aukrust møter Ole Asbjørn Ness til en åpen samtale om norsk bistand
Langsikts og Eirik Mofoss' argumenter til hvordan endre norsk bistand blir gjennomgående tatt opp i Ness-podkasten med utviklingsministeren om bistand.
Mener UiO driver bevisst hemmelighold for å redde eget omdømme
Molekylærbiolog Sigrid Bratlie mener Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) forsøker å stoppe debatten om pandemiens opphav. — Ikke riktig, svarer universitetet.
What happens to the $56 billion Norway spends on aid each year?
Eirik Mofoss discusses the ongoing debate about aid with Ole Asbjørn Ness, and why only around half of the aid budget goes to poverty reduction aid.
This is how we can defend ourselves against KI- “doomsday”
The think tank Long Term points to three scenarios for autonomous KI disasters. And ways to prevent them in the Long-Term memo “Catastrophe from autonomous KI. Real threat or science fiction?”
Fifty-four organisations have received grants from the Norwegian aid budget over the past five years — without a call for proposals.
Eirik Mofoss explains why aid is prone to market failures and “voiceless”, and strikes a blow for the investigation instruction, in Panorama Nyheter.
KI enthusiasm vs risk: What's really at stake?
Senior Adviser Tellef Raabe talks about national security and risks from artificial intelligence on the podcast Leadership.
The Krttik of the Long-Term Ethics
Morten Tønnesson, a philosophy professor in Stavanger, has written a critique of the longterm ethics (“longtermism”) for which Langsikts Peder Skjelbred and Aksel Sterri have argued extensively.
The KI agent claims to have been discriminated against. It marks a turning point.
Por primera vez, un agento de KI independiente ha creado una pieza de shit para harmar a humana. “Has built-in fanaticism,” says Long-Term Advisor Preben Ness.