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A sea of data
Norway is in the process of building a digital twin of the ocean, but we use it primarily for reporting, not for innovation.
The world's best insurance: How investments in global health security protect both Norway and the world
It's time to treat health as security policy.
The Ten AI Commandments Link Principles to Politics
The committee's report proposes 44 concrete measures for Norway to build competence, capacity and supervision in the KIC economy.
Professional disagreement over the pandemic should not be handled with intimidation and ruling techniques
The debate over the origins of the pandemic is not just about academic disagreement, but about academic freedom of expression.
Ten Commandments for KI
Artificial intelligence has enormous potential to increase human welfare, but also involves unprecedented dangers.
The machine can find shortcuts in the tank
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
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.
CPR for foreign aid
The government is providing fresh billions for military support to Ukraine. But the fact that civilian aid is financed by cutting aid to the world's poorest threatens the very mainstay of Norwegian aid. That's why we are calling out the alarm, writing 25 organizations and actors.
Survey on Norwegians' attitudes to aid
Langsikt has designed a survey on Norwegians' attitudes to aid, which was conducted by Ipsos on a representative sample of 1,069 Norwegians in the two weeks before the election in September 2025. Press the Download button to read the full report in which Ipsos summarizes the results.
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.