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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)
Norwegian foundations are stingy
Billions of dollars are dusting down, rather than solving society's challenges. Foundations should provide more and faster.
Media coverage
Norway changes course for its biggest aid recipient
“When everything is important, nothing becomes a priority,” senior advisor Cindy Robles told Panorama News.
Fearing KI disaster, gets millions from tech billionaires
Trade union manager Aksel Braanen Sterri and general manager Eirik Mofoss respond to the criticism of Inga Strümke
The horror scenarios from Silicon Valley and the think tank Long Term contribute to public relations for the KI industry and shade more important discussions, Inga Strümke believes.
How should we fear KI? Nine page report in Morgenbladet in which Stümke criticizes Langsikt's focus on KI disasters.
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.