The main purpose of this work is to assist the secretariat in administrative matters including maintaining the web site, the Facebook and the Twitter accounts, organising events, editing the Newslette Fund-raising is a substantial part of our work and the person we’re seeking will also be asked to assist in this work (complete the forms, submit the paperwork and follow up on behalf of the association). All communication will be in English. The person we are looking for will be placed at the Institute for Future studies in the very centre of Stockholm.

in: Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security (ed. Roman Yampolskiy), CRC Press. Abstract Developing a superintelligent AI might be very dangerous if it turns out to be unfriendly, in the sense of hav

Can ethnic implicit bias affect how public officials at social security offices assess applications for income support and if so, can these attitudes be changed or controlled across time?

HR CoordinatorTel: +46 76-540 12 34E-mail: [email protected] I handle questions concerning staff, recruitment and HR-administration. I also coordinate research seminars and guest researchers.

Björn Lundgren

I am an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. My research mains concerns issues concerning information, information security, privacy, anonymity, and AI technology. However, I ha

How we process personal data  The General Data Protection Regulation, a new important regulation for the protection of personal data, came into force in May 2018. It entails improved rights for you to d

Corrie Hammar

I belong to serval different functions and research groups at the Institute for Futures Studies. The three main groups I work for are led by Pontus Strimling, Anna Tyllström and Stefan Svallfors. Within t

Julia Adler

I am a research assistant at the Mimir Center for Longterm Futures Research. In my role as research assistant I support the research group with planning, administration and implementation of the projec I am also writing my master's thesis in political science at Stockholm University as part of this project. I also support the communications department.

The project aims to provide an overall analysis of the challenges and opportunities that the implementation of self-driving cars will bring, as well as a more detailed analysis of any of these problems.

Research seminar with Bo Rothstein.AbstractMost definitions of democracy rely on a set of procedural rules for how political power should be accessed legitimately. The basic norm for these procedural ru realized by equal democratic rights. In this understanding of political legitimacy, democracy is a “partisan game” where various interests are given fair possibilities to compete for political power. The concept of “quality of government” relates to the legitimacy in the of political power and is based on the norm of  that is the opposite of partisanship. This is to be realized by, for example, the rule of law and a public administration built on meritocracy. Several tensions between these two bases for achieving political legitimacy will be present. For example, a democratically elected government may want to politicize the public administration and may establish public services and benefits directed only to their political supporters. The rule of law includes the principle of equality before the law, but a democratically elected government may take actions that put itself “above” the law. Various empirical measures and philosophical principles for understanding these type of tensions between democracy and the quality of government will be presented in this lecture.