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A sea of data

Norway is in the process of building a digital twin of the ocean, but we use it primarily for reporting, not for innovation.

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.

The Ten AI Commandments

For shared prosperity from AI and data

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.