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We must not forget the victims of war outside of Europe
Millions could die of starvation this summer, partly as a consequence of the war in Ukraine. Also this year, Norway's Ukraine program should include countries in the south.
Standard for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
How to manage AI risk? A guide for Norwegian businesses. A collaboration between EY and Langsikt
It shouldn't be up to you to say yes or no to Facebook
Privacy is not protected by focusing more on consent or deleting our profiles.
A lab leak may have started the corona pandemic
The corona pandemic has been the biggest global crisis of our time. It has cost millions of lives, trillions of dollars and inflicted countless other negative consequences on society. The origins of the pandemic remain an unanswered question. In this document, we review the available knowledge. Based on this, we assess it as of June 2024, as most likely that the pandemic was the result of an accident at a research laboratory in Wuhan, not from natural contagion from animals at the wet market close by. We also point out how both the political and scientific system have failed in dealing with the issue and thus stood in the way of designing a knowledge-based preparedness and prevention policy for future pandemics.
Weapons, Plague and Gold - Opportunities and Threats of New Biotechnology
The twin revolutions in biotechnology and artificial intelligence will, in the future, dramatically increase the ability of humans to decode and program genetic code. This gives us the ability to design completely new biological functions and organisms - called synthetic biology. Synthetic biology will, over the next few decades, create trillion-class values and help us solve challenges in climate, animal welfare, food supply, medicine, vaccines, biomaterials and many other areas. At the same time, synthetic biology can have disastrous consequences either as a result of mishaps or intentional damage. In order to harness the enormous benefits that biorevolution can bring us, while avoiding the greatest dangers, we need to develop precise and ambitious policies. Download the memo to read more about this topic. If you would like to read the memo that specifically deals with the origin of the corona pandemic, you can find it here: www.langsikt.no/en/publikasjoner/lablekkasje.
Constitution needs to be changed
May 17th may not be the day to criticize either the nation or constitution. But it has to be done.
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)
Media coverage
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.
Incorrect about government climate funding
Minister for Development Tvinnereim responds to General Manager Eirik Mofoss's column in DN where he criticizes the government for fiddling with figures when describing Norway's climate finance.
Complaints about Norwegian GMO ban to EU
Genetechnology expert Sigrid Bratlie complains about Norway's import ban on genetically modified corn and rapeseed to the European Union's control body ESA, because she believes it violates EEA rules. Law professor Hans Petter Graver believes Norway may have to lift the import ban.
The need for dissidents
Torbjørn Røe Isaksen writes in E24 about the importance of dissent in a society, highlighting Langsikt's note on the lab leak hypothesis (https://www.langsikt.no/publikasjoner/lablekkasje) as well as the VG case on the same topic (https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/OooK9w/kan-bli-tidenes-stoerste-skandale), where Senior Advisor Sigrid Bratlie is interviewed, as an important example.
It could be the biggest scandal of all time.
“There are many elements of this case that are best explained by the fact that there was a lab leak.” VG writes about the origin of the corona pandemic, and has interviewed Senior Advisor Sigrid Bratlie among others.