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. […]
Oy
Linken til engelsk bogoskop fungerte ikkje p Firefox. Men viss du
fjernar alt uib.greiene framfor og set http://www.ms11.rundefamily.net/bogoscope
s fungerer alt.
Jason
Jill – which version of IE? At work, with IE 6 on WinXP Pro, your paragraphs look fine – the only funky thing (which has always been the case) is your comment box wraps under your right column (so if anything is spelled wrong in this comment, it’s because I’m typing 1/3 blnd under a pink background).
But your regular blogpost paragraphs look fine?
Riccardo (Bru)
you’re amazing 😀
Jamie
You rock!
I will have to show this to my class about the WWW.
achilleas
The comment box wraps around the right column in Firefox/WXP as well. It also gives
a slight horizontal scrolling margin.
I am about to move my wordpress to another domain and i really wonder whether i’m
gonna do it as fast as you did (i recon it took you less than a week).
trond
Jill, there’s something wrong about the RSS from your blog now. The RSS feed I’ve subscribed to from you page has changed to contain a lot of stuff that’s not on your page, as if it’s echoing one or more feeds that you are subscribing to yourself.
Jill
If you subscribed to the Feedburner feed it includes my public Flickr photos and links I post to del.icio.us as well as posts to my blog. You can subscribe to a plain RSS feed for just the blog instead if you like.
trond
OK, Thanks.
Jill
I should have made the redirect from my old URL a permanent redirect. It’s pretty easy, really. My .htaccess file said
Redirect /~jill http://jilltxt.net
Which simply sends traffic to the new site. Adding the number “301” lets browsers and search engines know that this is a permanent redirect and the site has moved for good. Google and so on respect this more than a plain old temporary redirect. So now my .htaccess says
Redirect 301 /~jill http://jilltxt.net
As for PageRank and such, it only took a couple of weeks to get back up to #2 on Google, but I still haven’t regained #1. My PageRank also seems to be 0, maybe because of the faulty redirect. Doesn’t really matter since people can find me anyway, but there was a kind of joy in being the top hit for “Jill” on the entire internet 🙂
Jill
Ugh. Internal server errors from this. Even putting it back the way it used to be doesn’t work. Sucks.