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. […]
vika
Oh, bless your heart. I may actually figure out now what’s wrong with my commenting feature — the comments links appear, but the comments don’t register. Perhaps then I’ll complete my own move to MT as well. 🙂
Jill
Well, heartened by that, Vika, here’s my template for individual entries too. And I think the error about comments is a classic, half my students have it – the one where you are getting comments but the post still says Comments (0) right?
Christian found the solution to this in a discussion on the MoveableType forum. You need to make sure your templates are set to automatically update, and you might need to install something called Digest::MD5. I’ve found this doesn’t happen in the latest version but that might just be chance.
vika
Yes, that’s the error! I’ll check out the other links, thank you for them. I asked about this on the MT forum some time ago, but stopped checking for replies before I got any. Hooray.
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Thanks for great info
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Jeg tar HUIN102 dette semesteret, og dersom noen har (og har lyst til  selge/kvitte seg meg) f¯lgende b¯ker: G. Barnbrook: Language and Computers, 1996 S. Hockey: Electronic Texts in the Humanities, 2000 Claus Huitfelt: “Tekstkoding og tekststruktur” …