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Artificial Intelligence
Here you will find an overview of our work on artificial intelligence.
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The world's best insurance: How investments in global health security protect both Norway and the world
It's time to treat health as security policy.
The Ten AI Commandments Link Principles to Politics
The committee's report proposes 44 concrete measures for Norway to build competence, capacity and supervision in the KIC economy.
Professional disagreement over the pandemic should not be handled with intimidation and ruling techniques
The debate over the origins of the pandemic is not just about academic disagreement, but about academic freedom of expression.
Ten Commandments for KI
Artificial intelligence has enormous potential to increase human welfare, but also involves unprecedented dangers.
The machine can find shortcuts in the tank
A machine has improved one of computer science's most fundamental ideas -- Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm. It marks a turning point, where the boundary between human insight and machine computation is blurring.
We need a research institute for AI security
Artificial intelligence will be our next societal infrastructure. In order to trust it, we need to understand how it learns, reasons and influences us back. Norway should establish a research institute for AI security — not as supervision, but as an arena for insight, values and robust societal understanding.
CPR for foreign aid
The government is providing fresh billions for military support to Ukraine. But the fact that civilian aid is financed by cutting aid to the world's poorest threatens the very mainstay of Norwegian aid. That's why we are calling out the alarm, writing 25 organizations and actors.
Survey on Norwegians' attitudes to aid
Langsikt has designed a survey on Norwegians' attitudes to aid, which was conducted by Ipsos on a representative sample of 1,069 Norwegians in the two weeks before the election in September 2025. Press the Download button to read the full report in which Ipsos summarizes the results.
Media coverage
AI, blunders, and trust.
Expert Aksel Braanen Sterri interviewed on NRK Radio about an AI blunder during the national anthem.
Norwegian authorities should not legitimize effective altruism.
Jörn Klein criticizes Norwegian authorities for participating in a Langsikt seminar, citing Langsikt's informal role in the effective altruism movement. Eirik Mofoss and Aksel Sterri respond in their own article.
Short-term plan
Morten Jerven criticizes Eirik Mofoss' and Cindy Robles' article in NRK Ytring on cash transfers.
Experts concerned about the development: – The threat landscape is changing
Those working to protect Norway from biological threats are concerned. Artificial intelligence and new biotechnology may be changing the rules of the game. A report following the Langsikt seminar on biological threats in a new era.
The world's most powerful cyber weapon is here. His name is Claude.
Incoming AI advisor Anders Eidesvik writes about Claude as a superhacker in Altinget.
What happens at the intersection of advanced machine learning, applied ethics, and sociopolitical transformation?
Advisor and AI researcher Preben Ness visited Skravleklassen to discuss AI.
Langsikt recruits global health professional from Save the Children
Langsikt strengthens its team with Henrik Mathias Hvaal, who joins as a senior advisor in aid and global health.
Podcast: AI can give us a fantastic future! Super-happiness, super-intelligence, and super-long lives
Advisor Peder Skjelbred participated in Verdibørsen, where he talked about how AI can make the future utopian.
Senior Advisor Tellef Raabe on Nyhetskompaniet about Trump's AI meeting with Xi Jinping
AI security and Nvidia were also discussed.
The government is taking NOK 655 million from the aid budget to pay for increased spending on Ukrainian refugees in Norway
“This is once again a reverse Robin Hood policy: we are taking money from the world's poorest to finance spending that belongs elsewhere in the national budget. An additional $655 million for refugee spending is a legitimate political choice — but it is not aid,” said Eirik Mofoss, the executive director.