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Norwegian aid is like an emergency room where friends are treated first
And the Minister of Health decides what treatment should be given.
Don't stick your head in the sand
Jacob Wulff Wold and Aksel Braanen Sterri respond to criticism from Kjetil Rommetveit and Ragnar Fjelland.
We don't know if private health threatens the welfare state -- lacking data
We don't know how many people buy healthcare privately, who they are, and why they do it. Absence of data is a democratic problem.
Recommendations for the UN report on autonomous weapons
Langsikt thanks for the opportunity to contribute to Norway's preparations for the UN Secretary-General's report on autonomous weapons systems. (NB: The PDF is in Norwegian)
Norwegian foundations are stingy
Billions of dollars are dusting down, rather than solving society's challenges. Foundations should provide more and faster.
AGI is not futurism
The fact that the problems belong to the future does not mean that we should postpone the discussion of artificial general intelligence until we are in the middle of them.
The cold we forgot: Norway's missing nuclear winter preparedness
This memorandum assesses Norway's lack of nuclear winter preparedness and aims to raise awareness of the necessity of preparing for a potential nuclear winter.
Would you have your personal AI Jonas?
Deepfake technology can be used for more important matters than humor.
Input to the National Quality of Life Strategy
Langsikt supports the government's strategy to make the quality of life of the population a guiding star in policy making and use knowledge of quality of life to develop policies that promote quality of life. We thank you for the opportunity to provide input that can make the strategy even better. (NB: The PDF is in Norwegian)
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.