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Three AI advancements to look out for in 2025
War, film and work are among the areas that will be characterized by KI in 2025.
Deepseek should be a wake-up call. It's time for Norway to develop its own AI.
Artificial intelligence is too important to be left to oligarchs and party dictatorships.
Aftenposten prevents an enlightened aid debate
Shutting down aid is as knowledgable as shutting down health care.
We are not prepared for the most severe threats
The white paper on total preparedness national security, but we do not know what dangers threaten us or what to do about them.
More knowledge-based aid. What's the next step?
Tighter budgets and new crises make it even more important to have knowledge-based and cost-effective aid. Norway is already doing a lot to make this happen, but we have more to go on. A working group has presented a report with new recommendations.
Improving the efficiency of Norwegian aid through the UN and the World Bank
In 2023, 31.7 billion Norwegian kroner (54% of Norway's aid budget) was allocated through multilateral organizations, with the UN system and the World Bank Group being the two main recipients. This note presents recommendations to the government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Norad on how the foreign service can become a more effective and coordinated donor to Norway's largest partners. We focus on the UN system and the World Bank in this first note of the series.
An invisible environmental poison costs millions of lives
Lead in food and paint causes health damage to millions of children every year. Poor countries in particular have a long way to go.
Salmon suffering is Norway's darkest secret
... and the government does nothing. Here are four steps that can help with Norway's biggest animal welfare disaster.
AI must be democratic and cheap
Last week, the leading AI company Open AI announced that the premium version of the best Chat GPT model will go from costing $20 to $200 a month. So you have to spend 25,000 Norwegian kroner a year if you want the latest technology from Silicon Valley.
Media coverage
Director of Langsikt Eirik Mofoss in Agenda interview on Norway's green guarantees
Eirik Mofoss is one of several people interviewed in Agenda Magazine on Norway's green investments. Mofoss criticizes the Norwegian Green Guarantee Scheme for setting aside a buffer for possible losses, and believes that Norway, with its strong economy and access to capital, does not need such a loss provision.
Eirik Mofoss in panel discussion on Norway's support to the vaccine alliance Gavi
The Managing director of Langsikt, Eirik Mofoss, recently participated in a panel discussion with Sania Nishtar, director of the vaccine alliance Gavi. Over the past 25 years, including with the support of Norway, Gavi has vaccinated over one billion children.
Året da KI vant Nobelprisene
Seniorrådgiver Sigrid Bratlie kommenterer nobelprisen i kjemi og i medisin (som begge egentlig går til molekylærbiologi!) i Abels tårn spesial om årets Nobelpriser.
The law that drives the development of AI
Aksel Sterri, Research Director, writes about the scaling law and the consequences it can have for Norwegian AI policy. “Despite the challenges, there is little reason to believe that we have seen the best AI models. Billions of dollars are invested in the leading technology companies and AI-created data has already been used to improve Anthropic's AI model. Epoch's conclusion is that “by 2030, with a high probability, it will be possible to train models that exceed GPT-4 in scale to the same extent that GPT-4 exceeds GPT-2 in scale”.”
Tore Renberg kritiserer Digitaliseringsministerns holdning til KI-sikkerhet
Tore Renberg kritiserer digitaliseringsministerens svar til fagsjef Aksel Braanen Sterri på Dagsnytt 18 den 26.09. Tung svarer: «Jeg tror ikke på dommedagsscenarioene.» - "Merk hvilket ord hun bruker: «Tror.» Som Braanen Sterri sa: Sånn kan vi ikke holde på. Vi kan ikke basere den største revolusjonen i moderne tid på tro. Det har folk forsøkt før. For hva er tro? Tro er følelser. Og menneskene i samfunnet er ikke eksperter, de er følelsesklumper. Det skal de få lov til å være. Det er den styrende parten som ikke har lov til å styre etter følelser."
Fagsjef Aksel Braanen Sterri kommenterer regjeringens nye digitaliseringsstategi i Dagsnytt 18
Fagsjef Aksel Braanen Sterri kommenterer og diskuterer regjeringens nye digitaliseringsstategi med Digitaliseringsminister Karianne Tung i Dagsnytt 18. Sterri etterlyser at Digitaliseringsstrategien lytter til de ledende forskerne på KI og tar på alvor de mulige alvorlige truslene fra KI.
Professorer om oljens klimaeffekt: – Norge har et visst moralsk ansvar
E24 skriver om det nye forslaget, og det tilhørende arrangementet av Langsikt og Samfunnsøkonomene, lagt fram av Steinar Holden og Michael Hoel i den nyeste utgaven av Samfunnsøkonomen. Forslaget innebærer en klimaavgift på olje som skal brukes til å finansiere klimainvesteringer i utviklingsland.
CEO Eirik Mofoss on Dagsnytt 18 on cutting electric car subsidies
Eirik Mofoss appeared on Dagsnytt 18 to debate the proposal he and Aksel Braanen Sterri have put forward: to cut electric car subsidies and rather spend the money on more effective climate cuts abroad. Sigrun Aasland, State Secretary at the Ministry of Climate and Environment, believes that the proposal is outdated, since we need such big cuts today that we have to readjust on all fronts. Watch the full debate between Eirik and the secretary of state on NRK.
CEO Eirik Mofoss talks about Norwegian aid in Tanzania on 198 countries podcast
Since he has lived there for a few months and knows a lot about the country that has received the most Norwegian aid, General Manager Eirik visited the geography podcast 198 countries with Einar Tørnquist about the country Tanzania. It turned into a free and open themed episode about aid in addition to two regular episodes at Podimo.
Senior Advisor Sigrid Bratlie discusses the lab leak theory in Dagsnytt 18
Senior Advisor Sigrid Bratlie meets Rein Aasland, professor of microbiology at UiO, and Minerva editor Nils August Andresen to discuss the possibility that a lab leak started the corona pandemic.