I just signed a petition calling for Norwegian universities to use research expertise on AI when deciding how to implement it, rather than having decisions be made mostly administratively. , If you are a researcher in Norway, please read it and sign it if you agree – and share with anyone else who might be interested. The petition was written by three researchers at UiT: Maria Danielsen (a philosopher who completed her PhD in 2025 on AI and ethics, including discussions of art and working life), Knut Ørke (Norwegian as a second language), and Holger Pötzsch (a professor of media studies with many years of research on digital media, video games, disruption, and working life, among other topics). This is not about preventing researchers from exploring AI methods in their research. It is about not uncritically accepting the hype that everyone must use AI everywhere without critical reflection. It is about not introducing Copilot as the default option in word processors, or training PhD candidates to believe they will fall behind if they do not use AI when writing articles, without proper academic discussion. Changes like these should be knowledge-based and discussed academically, not merely decided administratively, because they alter the epistemological foundations of research. Maria wrote to me a couple of months ago because she had read my opinion piece in Aftenposten in which I called for a strong brake on the use of language models in knowledge work. She was part of a committee tasked with developing UiT’s AI strategy and was concerned because there was so much hype and so few members of the committee with actual expertise in AI. I fully support the petition. There are probably some good uses for AI in research, but the uncritical, hype-driven insistence that we must simply adopt it everywhere is highly risky. There are many researchers in Norway with strong expertise in AI, language, ethics, working life, and culture. We must make use of this expertise. This is also partly about respect for research in the humanities, social sciences, psychology, and law. Introducing AI at universities and university colleges is not merely a technical issue, and perhaps not even primarily a technical one. It concerns much more: philosophy of science, methodological reflection, epistemology, writing, publishing, the working environment, and more. […]
Gustav
Jag vet hur det k‰nns. Ett s‰tt ‰r att blogga forskningsprocessen, s kan man kombinera bloggandet och forskningsprocessen – jag har testat att nÂgra gÂnger skriva av mig p bloggen, och sen har det utvecklats till stycken i mitt forskningsskrivande.
Jill
Yes…that often works. Right now I just want summer holidays…. Ah well, don’t we all 😉
Gustav
Ooops – slipped into Swediscandinavian there.
Summer – ahh, yes, the time without marking exams and going to meetings; a time for playing football with the kids reading and writing and swimming and fishing and barbequeing and traveling to relatives – how will I find the time? 🙂
macloo
I just found a good way to look for blogs you
might like. In Bloglines, when you are already looking
at a blog there, you’ll see a link at the top right
that says Related Feeds. Some of the stuff that comes
up is old or no good, but I have discovered (and also
rediscovered) quite a few fine blogs this way.
Jess
I like to start with a good collective feed site (like ScienceBlogs, which I read every day) and branch off from there.