Our work
Here you will find all our work and everything others write about us. We are constantly working to produce new content, including notes, consultation input, chronicles and debate posts.
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Artificial Intelligence
Here you will find an overview of our work on artificial intelligence.
All publications
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.
AGI is not futurism
The fact that the problems belong to the future does not mean that we should postpone the discussion of artificial general intelligence until we are in the middle of them.
The cold we forgot: Norway's missing nuclear winter preparedness
This memorandum assesses Norway's lack of nuclear winter preparedness and aims to raise awareness of the necessity of preparing for a potential nuclear winter.
Would you have your personal AI Jonas?
Deepfake technology can be used for more important matters than humor.
Input to the National Quality of Life Strategy
Langsikt supports the government's strategy to make the quality of life of the population a guiding star in policy making and use knowledge of quality of life to develop policies that promote quality of life. We thank you for the opportunity to provide input that can make the strategy even better. (NB: The PDF is in Norwegian)
Media coverage
Podcast with Sigrid Bratlie: - I was hung out for telling the truth
Sigrid Bratlie guested on the Ness podcast where she spoke about covid-19 and the lab leak theory and transparency in academia.
- Inga Strümke does us all a disservice
If the future is uncertain, there is all the more reason to prepare for a number of different outcomes, writes columnist and former Long-Term Advisor Anders Eidesvik. He responds to the criticism Strümke made in Morgenbladet.
The Eirik Mofoss Method: How to Discuss Aid with People Who Basically Have Second Value Views
Panorama Nyheter mentioned the “Eirik Mofoss method” after Eirik Mofoss guested on the podcast Ness on the topic of aid.
Podkast: Effective Aid, Rationality and the Ethics of the Future
General Manager Eirik Mofoss guested on the podcast Skravlekassen.
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.