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Completed: Improved health
With the help of big data and AI, children and young people in the risk zone for ill health can be identified for individually tailored efforts. The project is done in Angered.
Against AI-improved Personal Memory
In: Aging between Participation and Simulation, Eds: Joschka Haltaufderheide, Johanna Hovemann and Jochen Vollmann, p: 223–234, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110677485-014 Abstra
Improved planning in the healthcare system by mining hospital data with Marie Persson
Presentation at the workshop "AI and autonomous decision making" at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, October 2017.
Pitcovski’s explanation-based account of harm
Philosophical Studies Abstract In a recent article in this journal, Eli Pitcovski puts forward a novel, explanation-based account of harm. We seek to show that Pitcovski’s account, and his arguments in
Equality and equity in Swedish education: policy, practice and historical perspectives
Björn Åstrand, Universitetslektor vid Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier vid Umeå universitet. Equality and equity in education is since long a key policy priority internationally as well as in
The Future of Human-Machine Cooperation in the Workplace
How will Ai impact the development of human potential? According to several prominent thinkers that have discussed the future of work and automation, there are two main scenarios for how the developmen
Björn Åstrand: Equality and equity in Swedish education: policy, practice and historical perspectives
Björn Åstrand, Associate professor at Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Umeå University AbstractEquality and equity in education is since long a key policy priority intern
Using big data to achieve better public health - new project
How can we in a systematic way understand what is causing better health in people? And how can we most efficiently use the resources of the public sector to turn around the development towards greater
The more things change, the more they stay the same. A follow up of participants in Social Fund financed projects
Research report 2014/5, 77 p. Every year in Sweden, over one hundred thousand job-seekers are assigned to local labour market policy measures, of which a large proportion are financed with money from t
Being and Well-Being
in: Weighing and Reasoning. Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome, Eds.Iwao Hirose and Andrew Reisner, Oxford University Press. This chapter discusses the question of whether we can make it better
