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. […]
Helge Tenn¯
Tom Peters references a source in one of his talks saying “Men want tables and rankings, women want narratives”.
Jeffrey Cole at USC Annenberg School Center for the digial future says that the Social “infusion” finally gives the web the layers of human interaction (socialness) we have always known it will bring.
And I personally can’t wait to see what this web will become as soon as the new creators of the web turns it into something we want rather than something technology can do. :o)
stevendkrause.com » Oscar night link shout-outs
[…] Via jill/txt, girls apparently blog more than boys. A potentially interesting link to follow through on for teaching, but since my BAWS project specifically skips the under 18 year old crowd, not so much for my research. […]
Liz Lawley
Mary Hodder pointed out that they put that article in the *Fashion* section.
😛
Den akademiska bastuklubben b??rjar blogga | Mothugg
[…] Vad beror det p?•? I Media Culpas senaste unders??kning av svenska bloggare och bloggl?§sare dominerar unga kvinnor, ?§ven om kvinnor och m?§n har f??ruts?§gbart stereotypa bloggintressen. Via Jill Walker, som med sin norska bas inte kan f??rst?§rka det svenska damlaget, ser jag att 12‚Äì17-?•riga flickor tydligen ligger steget f??re pojkar i samma ?•lder p?• att skapa webbinneh?•ll. Det kanske ?§r som alltid med j?§mst?§lldheten: Det l??ser sig sj?§lvmant med n?§sta generation. […]
Cutter
The fashion section?
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BradyDale
When it comes to actually DOING anything, I always tend to go to women first. Sorr if my bltoehre
feel like i’m letting them down here.
I first started blogging because a girl suggested it and she was already doing it,
then it took me a very, very long time to get serious about it.
Meanwhile, I’ve started writing for http://www.beanstockd.com/, which is a very
ambitious site and it was two Seniors at Harvard who got it off the ground and have
just been doing bang-up work since.
Koenraad
Well, the pope (a boy despite his long dresses) just launched a website http://www.news.va/ and sent his first tweet…