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18 September, 2023

Why AI is so alert to racism

In a new study of political values among American employees in the industry that is currently shaping the digitized society and its future - the tech industry - researchers found a "unique" dominance

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13 October, 2023

"Unique values among workers in tech"

In a new study of political values among workers in the American tech industry researchers found a ”unique” dominance of left-liberal values and anti-establishement thinking. We asked Niels Selling, p

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14 May, 2014

IF starts a blog

The Institute for Futures Studies now has a blog named Framtider (Futures), a name it has inherited from a magazine that was previously published by the Institute. On this blog you will find posts on

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30 October, 2019

Incommensurability: Vagueness, Parity and other Non-Conventional Comparative Relations

The workshop will focus on how one can account for value incommensurability, its implications for ethical theory and decision theory.

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30 October, 2019

Incommensurability: Vagueness, Parity and other Non-Conventional Comparative Relations

The workshop will focus on how one can account for value incommensurability, its implications for ethical theory and decision theory.

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28 August, 2015

Stefan Arora-Jonsson: What Competition Brings

Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Professor at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala universitet ABSTRACTCompetition is a ubiquitous feature of modern society, perhaps more so now than ever before. While com

Stefan Jonsson, Professor at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala universitet
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07 April, 2016

Thomas Christiano: The Tension between the Nature and the Norm of Voluntary Exchange

Thomas Christiano, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona ABSTRACTI argue we can make a great deal of progress in understanding the promise and the perils of voluntary exchange by elabora

Thomas Christiano, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona
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12 April, 2022

The triumph of secular individualism – A new mathematical model offers clear-cut answers to how morals will change over time

Irina Vartanova, Kimmo Eriksson and Pontus Strimling at the Institute for Futures Studies have created a model to predict changes in moral opinion. –Ourmodel did considerably better than all known methPontus Strimling.

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19 September, 2018

Research and ideas for a brighter future

In the wake of the election one can start to wonder what politics should really be about. What are the greatest challenges to our modern society and what can be done to overcome these, with a brighter

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