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30 March 2020

Three Mistakes in the Moral Reasoning About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Orri Stefánsson, philosopher at the Institute for Futures Studies and decision theorist, dissects the moral reasoning about t...

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19 March 2020

The coronavirus, mortality and life expectancy

A demographer calculates how the average life expectancy can be affected In Sweden, we now experience the first pandemic tha...

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18 March 2020

Epidemiologist on the corona epidemic

What do we know today about Corona and the way it spreads? Why do different countries act differently in reaction to the pand...

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17 March 2020

The Institute and the Corona epidemic

The Institute for Futures Studies is an internationalized business with a large number of foreign researchers who are affecte...

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Calendar

01 Apr 2020

POSTPONED. NEW DATE PENDING.Nicole J. Hassoun: Aiding the Poor in Present and Future Generation
Research Seminar, 01 Apr, 10:00-12:00
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15 Apr 2020

Therese Lindahl: TBA
Research Seminar, 15 Apr, 10:00-12:00
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22 Apr 2020

POSTPONED. NEW DATE PENDING. James Fishkin: Democracy When the People Are Thinking: Applications of Deliberative Democracy
Research Seminar, 22 Apr, 10:00-12:00
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13 May 2020

Dick Arneson: TBA
Research Seminar, 13 May, 10:00-12:00
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IFFS Play

Karim Jebari: The social impact of AI - Inspirations on what to explore and how to aviod the hype
#video, 20 Feb 2020
The UK election and Brexit - David Miller and Gustaf Arrhenius
#podcast, 25 Feb 2020
Creating happy animals in order to eat them: Jeff McMahan and Tim Campbell
#podcast, 26 Feb 2020
What we know about the corona epidemic
#video, 19 Mar 2020
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Recently published

Defining Information Security
Journal articles, 2019
Björn Lundgren& Möller, N
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Three Mistakes in the Moral Reasoning About the Covid-19 Pandemic
Working papers, 2020
H. Orri Stefánsson
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Successful and failed episodes of democratization: conceptualization, identication, and description
Working papers, 2020
Patrik Lindenfors, Wilson MC, Morgan R, Medzihorsky J, Maxwell L, Maerz SF, Lührmann A, Lindenfors P, Edgell AB, Boese V & Lindberg SI
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AI Futures

A blog about the social impact of AI

6 Dec 2019

In Search of a PhD Student and a Postdoctoral Researcher to Help Us Predict the Spread of AI in Society

We were very glad to find that our research proposal: "Predicting the diffusion of AI-applications" was one of 16 projects awarded funding…
6 Dec 2019

PhD student position in psychology – Investigating the psychological and social processes that influence the diffusion of AI in society

We are planning to advertise a PhD student position in psychology in collaboration with the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University in…
3 Dec 2019

Diffusion by Infusion - Has AI Spread by Piggybacking on Mobile Apps?

Figure 1. Piggyback transportation: a train carried by a ferry between Bonn and Oberkassel (1870 - 1914). Source: Stadtarchiv und Stadthistorische Bibliothek,…
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