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The crises we don't care about
Why do politicians engage for crises in the global north but look a different path when the crises happen in the south?
Jonas on TikTok is a bad idea
Jonas Gahr Støre has taken to Tiktok to reach young voters. But TikTok is not the place for either youth or politics.
A new pandemic is on the stairs
And it could be much worse than the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
Media coverage
Abid Raja profile removed from booking agency after lecture criticism
Sondre Hansmark, seniorrådgiver i Langsikt, kritiserte Abid Raja for å ta betalt for å holde foredrag. I mediestormen som fulgte ble profilen til Raja hos bookingbyrået fjernet. Saken ble også dekket i VG, Nettavisen og Dagsnytt 18.
Interview with Nobel laureate in economics, Micheal Kremer, about the cuts to USAID
Micheal Kremer recently visited Oslo and gave lectures on effective aid, among others, hosted by Lang. The general manager of Long-Term, Eirik Mofoss, is interviewed in the report.
Aksel Braanen Sterri diskuterer Framtidspanelet på TV2 Nyhetskompaniet
Fagsjef i Langsikt gjestet TV2 Nyhetskompaniet fredag 16. mai.
“You can't get AI to generate something completely similar to, for example, Munch's paintings [...] without them having trained on their images"
Anders Eidesvik, AI advisor in Langsikt, is interviewed about copyright and AI in NRK.
What happened to the climate fight? Sondre Hansmark on Civita podcast
Is the Greta Thunberg generation dead, or does the climate fight just look different in 2025? Hear episode of “Think About It!” with Sondre Hansmark, a senior adviser in Langsikt and former leader of the Young Liberal Party.
Sigrid Bratlie on podcast about cell and gene therapy
What is cell and gene therapy, what treatments are approved and what are the bottlenecks and opportunities? Sigrid Bratlie, special adviser Langsikt, spoke about this and more as a guest on the podcast Radium.
NOREC exchange and information support are ineffective, says the think-tank Langsikt
A number of measures in Norwegian aid are “not effective” and should be cut altogether, Eirik Mofoss and Cindy Robles said in an interview with Panorama. The money saved, they will spend on other aid measures.
Digitalization minister Tung is one of the Parliament's least in-demand ministers.
The Parliament's lack of interest in digitalisation is worrying. “There is still a prevailing view that digitalisation is an unsexy political area,” says Anders Eidesvik in Langsikt.
Do you keep up with the AI development? Here are the main breakthroughs now
“The trend seems to have accelerated recently [and] this is perhaps the most important technical development happening right now,” says Jakob Graabak, AI expert and special adviser in Langsikt.
Eirik Mofoss on the podcast Liberal Halvtime
What is long-term policy, and why do we need to think long-term? General Manager of Langsikt, Eirik Mofoss, discusses with Mathilde Fasting about what should be done to get more long-term vision in politics.