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Three AI advancements to look out for in 2025
War, film and work are among the areas that will be characterized by KI in 2025.
Deepseek should be a wake-up call. It's time for Norway to develop its own AI.
Artificial intelligence is too important to be left to oligarchs and party dictatorships.
Aftenposten prevents an enlightened aid debate
Shutting down aid is as knowledgable as shutting down health care.
We are not prepared for the most severe threats
The white paper on total preparedness national security, but we do not know what dangers threaten us or what to do about them.
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.
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The world's most renowned KI professor is afraid of AI. - But now I think I have a solution.
Yoshua Bengio is not only the world's most cited scientist. Now he also believes to have figured out how to rein in the unstoppable KI technology. Report in Aftenposten after Bengio's visit to Oslo, which Langsikt planned.
Blood-poor AI-commandments
Herman Sjøberg, CEO of Ayfie, criticizes the “Ten AI Commandments” in DN, and believes the bids are a politically correct minimum common multiple.
When the world's leading KI expert is deeply concerned, we should be too.
Commentator in DN, Terje Erikstad, writes about Bengio's visit to Oslo and his concern about AI's development. Langsik was the coordinator of the visit.
The Ten Commandments of KI: Everyone in Norway should learn real KI, not just Chat GPT
A commandment should be something you can follow or break, not something you can “reflect on,” writes Lars Askvig, referring to Langsikt's Ten Ki Commandments.
Lack of AI skills: Langsikt gives NOK 5000 in reward to those who tip about the right person
NRK interviewed general manager Eirik Mofoss and wrote case that Langsikt promises bounties for tips that lead to the hiring of a KI advisor.
Is democracy threatened by the advance of AI technology?
Universitas has written a case about Gen Z's intellectual decay, and writes about Aksel Braanen Sterri's proposal to establish computer unions to ensure consent and financial compensation.
Censorship from Beijing darkens coronavirus debate
Arne Melsom, deputy chair of the Hong Kong Committee in Norway, mentions Sigrid Bratlie in a chronicle of Norway's debate surrounding the origin of the coronavirus, pointing out that China's censorship makes it almost impossible for anyone to know what actually happened.
Tellef Raabe on Echo about Americans' plan for control of TikTok
Trump has taken increasing control of the US media, and now TikTok stands for turn. This could change the way millions get news. So what will be the consequences?
- There is obviously a need for a KI security institute
Special Adviser Silvija Seres's chronicle of the need for a KI security institute creates debate. The proposal was criticized by Salzmann and Wasson who believe the need has already been covered. On the other hand, Klas Pettersen, a member of Lang's expert committee at KI, believes that a KI security institute will play an important role.
Norway's most expensive man: The story of the doctor Tore Godal
Long term is mentioned in the foreword to the book about Tore Godal, where Camilla Stoltenberg has written the foreword.