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Here you will find an overview of our work on artificial intelligence.
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Confused about the AI threat?
Recent events have made AI risk a topic of public debate in Norway. Some researchers issue strong warnings, others claim they see doomsday on the horizon, while others dismiss the whole thing as marketing campaigns. This document summarizes what we know, what is disputed, and what the implications of this uncertainty are. The document can also be downloaded as a PDF.
A Norwegian foreign policy for artificial intelligence
Why and how Norway should position itself in a new security policy reality.
Konseptnotat for et norsk KI-sikkerhetsorgan
Hvorfor og hvordan Norge bør etablere et KI-sikkerhetsorgan.
Submission to Project Turning Point (Prosjekt Vendepunkt)
Six proposals for Project Turning Point.
Langsikt is looking for a new general director - Mofoss lands international job
Langsikt is seeking a new CEO after Eirik Mofoss accepted a position as an independent special advisor to Erna Solberg at The Global Fund. Lotte Skolem will serve as acting CEO for the remainder of the year.
Aid on whose terms?
Ocean-related aid is spread thinly across many projects and countries. It is therefore not a solution to the fragmentation in current aid, as the Institute of Marine Research claims.
Langsikt-akademiet
Langsikt-akademiet samler fremtidens samfunnsledere til en helgesamling om spørsmålene som vil forme Norge de neste årene. Innlederne deler av sin inngående erfaring og hvert innlegg følges av god tid til refleksjon og diskusjon. Meld din interesse nå!
Not everything that creates jobs is aid
The most interesting thing Minister of International Development Åsmund Aukrust (Labour Party) said on Dagsnytt 18 almost went under the radar. He stated that development policy is more than just aid.
Vaccines are security policy
Pandemics can be more dangerous than war. The Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo shows just how poorly prepared the world remains.
Nothing new from Arendal
We went to Arendalsuka with a naive hope of hearing news from Project Turning Point. We didn't.
Media coverage
Director of Langsikt Eirik Mofoss in Agenda interview on Norway's green guarantees
Eirik Mofoss is one of several people interviewed in Agenda Magazine on Norway's green investments. Mofoss criticizes the Norwegian Green Guarantee Scheme for setting aside a buffer for possible losses, and believes that Norway, with its strong economy and access to capital, does not need such a loss provision.
Eirik Mofoss in panel discussion on Norway's support to the vaccine alliance Gavi
The Managing director of Langsikt, Eirik Mofoss, recently participated in a panel discussion with Sania Nishtar, director of the vaccine alliance Gavi. Over the past 25 years, including with the support of Norway, Gavi has vaccinated over one billion children.
Året da KI vant Nobelprisene
Seniorrådgiver Sigrid Bratlie kommenterer nobelprisen i kjemi og i medisin (som begge egentlig går til molekylærbiologi!) i Abels tårn spesial om årets Nobelpriser.
The law that drives the development of AI
Aksel Sterri, Research Director, writes about the scaling law and the consequences it can have for Norwegian AI policy. “Despite the challenges, there is little reason to believe that we have seen the best AI models. Billions of dollars are invested in the leading technology companies and AI-created data has already been used to improve Anthropic's AI model. Epoch's conclusion is that “by 2030, with a high probability, it will be possible to train models that exceed GPT-4 in scale to the same extent that GPT-4 exceeds GPT-2 in scale”.”
Tore Renberg kritiserer Digitaliseringsministerns holdning til KI-sikkerhet
Tore Renberg kritiserer digitaliseringsministerens svar til fagsjef Aksel Braanen Sterri på Dagsnytt 18 den 26.09. Tung svarer: «Jeg tror ikke på dommedagsscenarioene.» - "Merk hvilket ord hun bruker: «Tror.» Som Braanen Sterri sa: Sånn kan vi ikke holde på. Vi kan ikke basere den største revolusjonen i moderne tid på tro. Det har folk forsøkt før. For hva er tro? Tro er følelser. Og menneskene i samfunnet er ikke eksperter, de er følelsesklumper. Det skal de få lov til å være. Det er den styrende parten som ikke har lov til å styre etter følelser."
Fagsjef Aksel Braanen Sterri kommenterer regjeringens nye digitaliseringsstategi i Dagsnytt 18
Fagsjef Aksel Braanen Sterri kommenterer og diskuterer regjeringens nye digitaliseringsstategi med Digitaliseringsminister Karianne Tung i Dagsnytt 18. Sterri etterlyser at Digitaliseringsstrategien lytter til de ledende forskerne på KI og tar på alvor de mulige alvorlige truslene fra KI.
Professorer om oljens klimaeffekt: – Norge har et visst moralsk ansvar
E24 skriver om det nye forslaget, og det tilhørende arrangementet av Langsikt og Samfunnsøkonomene, lagt fram av Steinar Holden og Michael Hoel i den nyeste utgaven av Samfunnsøkonomen. Forslaget innebærer en klimaavgift på olje som skal brukes til å finansiere klimainvesteringer i utviklingsland.
CEO Eirik Mofoss on Dagsnytt 18 on cutting electric car subsidies
Eirik Mofoss appeared on Dagsnytt 18 to debate the proposal he and Aksel Braanen Sterri have put forward: to cut electric car subsidies and rather spend the money on more effective climate cuts abroad. Sigrun Aasland, State Secretary at the Ministry of Climate and Environment, believes that the proposal is outdated, since we need such big cuts today that we have to readjust on all fronts. Watch the full debate between Eirik and the secretary of state on NRK.
CEO Eirik Mofoss talks about Norwegian aid in Tanzania on 198 countries podcast
Since he has lived there for a few months and knows a lot about the country that has received the most Norwegian aid, General Manager Eirik visited the geography podcast 198 countries with Einar Tørnquist about the country Tanzania. It turned into a free and open themed episode about aid in addition to two regular episodes at Podimo.
Senior Advisor Sigrid Bratlie discusses the lab leak theory in Dagsnytt 18
Senior Advisor Sigrid Bratlie meets Rein Aasland, professor of microbiology at UiO, and Minerva editor Nils August Andresen to discuss the possibility that a lab leak started the corona pandemic.