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. […]
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[…] en I’d be moving to Paris to join my French boyfriend. Good grief. Must have been my I love Paris post set him off, don’t you think? Blogging has hazards I hadn’t even conside […]
Francois Lachance
Mais ma chere, you host your own. Online of course. Jan Rune Holmevik poura peut etre t’aider. Le monde et le MOO. Jill et la francophonie. Imagine des gens de Tahiti, du Canada et de la Martinique et bien sur la grande metropole — Paris.
Hankering for sound? Telephony and video hook up? You might want to drop a line to Geoffrey Rockweel at McMaster University — they have some big project to test the application of streaming technologies to scholarly communication.
Vas-y! Roughly translates as Just Do IT!
Jill
But what about the FOOD and the WINE and the CHALEUR and the SHOPPING? I need all that in order to be able to speak French…
Still, I should definitely go visit a French MOO.
fivecats
“At the age of thirty-seven
she realized she’d never ride
through Paris in a sports car
with the warm wind in her hair…”
from “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan”
Glad to know that won’t be you. 🙂
…
Jill
Oh dear, how sad. And no, it had better not be. That is, I haven’t actually done the sports car thing. I must make a note to try that.
suileabh?°in
That’s a beautiful photo, where is it from?
Jill
The photo’s from the back of my neck. Camera held behind head, and then the contrast and brightness are played with to, uh, emphasise the red 😉
yenayer
Since I am in France, but i’m not french, and a bit interested in new media, il I have any good news i will let you know … 🙂
I’ll do some research on the subject for you 🙂
Martin Dugage
If you come to Paris, let me know. I’ll be glad to show you around.
Bienvenue, bienvenue!
Martin
Jill
Oh, thank you! 🙂
Sylvie Noel
Maybe not a propos, but ECSCW will be held in Paris next year – alas the conference will (probably) be in English. Or who knows, maybe it’ll be bilingual?
And there’s IHM2004, not in Paris, though, but definitely in French, but that one starts in 5 days so you’d better hurry.
Bonne chance 🙂