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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
“You can't get AI to generate something completely similar to, for example, Munch's paintings [...] without them having trained on their images"
Anders Eidesvik, AI advisor in Langsikt, is interviewed about copyright and AI in NRK.
What happened to the climate fight? Sondre Hansmark on Civita podcast
Is the Greta Thunberg generation dead, or does the climate fight just look different in 2025? Hear episode of “Think About It!” with Sondre Hansmark, a senior adviser in Langsikt and former leader of the Young Liberal Party.
Sigrid Bratlie on podcast about cell and gene therapy
What is cell and gene therapy, what treatments are approved and what are the bottlenecks and opportunities? Sigrid Bratlie, special adviser Langsikt, spoke about this and more as a guest on the podcast Radium.
NOREC exchange and information support are ineffective, says the think-tank Langsikt
A number of measures in Norwegian aid are “not effective” and should be cut altogether, Eirik Mofoss and Cindy Robles said in an interview with Panorama. The money saved, they will spend on other aid measures.
Digitalization minister Tung is one of the Parliament's least in-demand ministers.
The Parliament's lack of interest in digitalisation is worrying. “There is still a prevailing view that digitalisation is an unsexy political area,” says Anders Eidesvik in Langsikt.
Do you keep up with the AI development? Here are the main breakthroughs now
“The trend seems to have accelerated recently [and] this is perhaps the most important technical development happening right now,” says Jakob Graabak, AI expert and special adviser in Langsikt.
Eirik Mofoss on the podcast Liberal Halvtime
What is long-term policy, and why do we need to think long-term? General Manager of Langsikt, Eirik Mofoss, discusses with Mathilde Fasting about what should be done to get more long-term vision in politics.
A Political Earthquake in Turkey
Ane Breivik, a Longsikt adviser and law student on exchange to Istanbul, writes about the overwhelming mobilization taking place in Istanbul's streets against Turkey's president.
- Has the potential to kill far more people than all the world's conflicts
Ingvild Wetrhus Thorsvik (V) is interviewed by Fædrelandsvennen about cuts in USAID and a recent aid trip to Kenya, where Langsikt participated as an organizer.
Sigrid Bratlie on podcast about GMOs, covid lab leaks and mutants
Sigrid Bratlie, Senior Advisor at Langsikt, is on Sunniva Rose's new podcast talking about why it's likely the covid virus leaked from a lab, what genetically modified organisms (GMOs) really are—and why GMOs can be really good.