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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
Aksel Braanen Sterri about the AI revolution on the podcast Stop the World
We are in the midst of a technological revolution. Is it salvation or a curse? Aksel discusses with Torbjørn Røe Isaksen.
Summer's big think-tank duel
Cindy Robles on a podcast about development policy alongside Agenda and Civita.
Calling political theater naive
Academic Director Aksel Sterri is interviewed in Klassekampen about why he thinks political art often appears naive and uninformed.
Artificial intelligence triggers giant investments in data centers
Data centres worth hundreds of billions are being built at record speed, even as the power grid is at risk of collapsing under its weight. Langsikts AI advisor Anders Eidesvik is familiar with Dagsavisen on the energy needs of artificial intelligence.
NRK Nyhetsmorgen interviews Langsikts AI advisor about Meta's AI update
Langsikt's AI advisor Anders Eidesvik is interviewed by NRK about the new update that allows Meta to share users' private messages with its I model.
Now private messages are shared in Messenger with KI
Langsikt's AI advisor Anders Eidesvik is interviewed by NRK about the new update that allows Meta to share users' private messages with its AI model.
Meta uses private messages to train AI models
Langsikt's advisor at KI, Anders Eidesvik, talked to Klassekampen about how Meta is starting to feed its AI models with users' private messages.
Greater climate risk for the Oil Fund than previously expected
Sondre Hansmark, senior advisor on climate, is interviewed by Green Central Banking about what Statens Pensjonsfond Utland (the oil fund) risks losing as a result of climate change.
“Mads” (18) does not exist—but so do the prejudices about him
Langsikt's AI advisor Anders Eidesvik is interviewed by Budstikka about why AIs create the cliché of “Bærumgsutten”.
Climate Tragedy: Are Politicians Failing the Future? A podcast with Eirik Mofoss
CEO of Lang, Eirik Mofoss, was on the podcast “Behind the news with Elin Ludvigsen” to talk about climate and disaster risks.