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Welcome as new NORAD Director
You can make Norwegian aid even better. Here are 10 suggestions on how.
This is how budget growth can be slowed
The government should get help to stop new spending. It comes out in the state's own evaluation.
Politics for the Future: How to better include the interests of future generations in Norwegian politics
Four proposals for institutional changes. Memo will be published no later than Wednesday, August 25.
We took control of the oil. Let's do the same with data and artificial intelligence
When the Americans came to Norway to conduct oil drilling, blood-trimmed politicians and bureaucrats ensured that the oil resources benefited the entire Norwegian people. But when the same Americans come to drill for data we do... nothing?
Scare propaganda from the environmental movement is costing thousands of lives
Sacrificing children's lives for the sake of being is not defensible.
The Ethics Council's Impossible Job
The oil fund's ethics council needs to be strengthened considerably. Despite the fact that the council is set to solve an impossible task.
KI-horisonten nyhetsbrev
Vi publiserer nyhetsbrev om de viktigste nyhetene innen kunstig intelligens den siste tiden.
Norway's underwater blind zone
Norway has a moral blind zone underwater. Annually, 200 million farmed salmon die before slaughter, and behind the figure lurks even more lives. Albert Didriksen and Aksel Braanen Sterri from the Norwegian think-tank Langsikt describe ethical challenges in salmon farming.
What's good for Røkke isn't necessarily good for Norway
Stargate Norway is Norway's largest KI venture. Without further action, it will mainly serve Røkke and Altman.
The oil fund - a prisoner's dilemma
Strategic incentives can lead everyone to want to hedge as much as possible, but long-term it weakens the community's value.
Media coverage
– The exception is probably a necessary evil
“It is unfortunate that Russia has found a hole in the sanctions regime. But the exception for chemical fertilizers is probably a necessary evil", says Eirik Mofoss, managing director of Lang.
Norway may end up at the back of the vaccine queue
“If Norway does not quickly become part of the EU health community, Norway could end up last in the vaccine line if a new pandemic strikes us. “, writes Senior Advisor in Langsikt, Sigrid Bratlie, in a chronicle in NRK Ytring. Here she meets Minister of Health Jan Christian Vestre in Dagsnytt 18 on the topic.
Mixed reception on Trump's proposal for health minister
Senior adviser to Langsikt, Sigrid Batlie, is skeptical of Donald Trump's proposal of Robert F. Kennedy as Secretary of Health of the United States. Kennedy is, among other things, skeptical towards vaccines. Feature in Dagsnytt 18.
How much should we fear AI-based superintelligence?
Aksel Braanen Sterri, Research director at Langsikt, met Anders Løland, Research Director at the Norwegian Computing Center for a discussion in Dagsnytt 18. Anders Løland and Inga Strümke have advocated that the discussion around superintelligent AI takes attention away from current AI problems. Aksel calls this “a dumbing down of the AI debate,” and believes there is good reason to fear super-intelligent KI systems.
Hopes a public panel can be crowbar on the Oil Fund
Future in our hands, the Norwegian Church Aid and other NGOs believe that the people are ambitious for the future, and therefore ask them for recommendations to the politicians. “I have to admit that I have a slight fear that there will be recommendations that I disagree with,” says Eirik Mofoss of Langsikt.
Wednesday debate: Aid with an off-taste
The Trondhjem Student Society is taking up the debate on Norway's aid priorities at this week's Wednesday debate. In the panel: Bjørg Sandkjær (Sp), State Secretary to the Minister of Development Anne Beathe Tvinnereim; Eirik Mofoss, Managing Director of Langsikt and Maria Lie Jordheim, Deputy Chairman of SAIH.
Everyone dances around the golden calf — the Norwegian Oil Fund
Nettavisen has written commentary on NRK Debatten on November 13, which discussed monetary support to Ukraine given the oil fund's increased value as a result of the war. Among the guests was Managing Director Eirik Mofoss, who argued that we should also provide increased aid to countries in the south that are particularly affected by the effects of the war.
Vil endre norsk bistand – fra utsiden
Langsikts bistandsteam Eirik Mofoss, Jon Lomøy og Cindy Robles er intervjuet i Panorama om sitt arbeid på bistandsfeltet.
Framtidspanelet: 40 000 nordmenn får SMS i dag
Onsdag 13. november mottar 40 000 innbyggere over hele landet en SMS-invitasjon til å delta i et lotteri. Gevinsten er ikke penger, men hva vi skal bruke dem på. Artikkel om Framtidspanelet (der Langsikt er blant initiativtakerne) hos Dagbladet.
Eirik Mofoss i NRKs Debatten om Ukraina-støtte og norsk superprofitt
Daglig leder Eirik Mofoss møtte politikerne Ine Eriksen Søreide og Guri Melby og flere i debatt i NRK Debatten om hvorvidt Norge bør gi mer støtte til Ukraina, og eventuelt flere andre tiltak. Mofoss argumenterte for at vi også bør gi økt bistand til land i sør som er særlig rammet av krigens ringvirkninger, og at det blir feil om Norge skal beholde den uforskyldte krigsprofitten selv.