Cogito Machina - Investigating the emergence of artificial general intelligence

Is AGI emergent? In order to know, several questions need to be answered and this project aims to provide the answeres. What is AGI? What is required for a system to have it, and how might we know whether AGI is emergent in a system. 

Political Science Research and Methods, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 449-466. doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.9 Abstract This paper presents a new approach for studying temporal sequences across ordinal variables. I

Fish and Fisheries, Early view: doi:10.1111/faf.12197. Abstract A substantial amount of scientific effort goes into understanding and measuring compliance in fisheries. Understanding why, how and when f

Social Science Research, 71, 109-128. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2017.12.006 Abstract Higher educated people tend to be more accepting of homosexuality than lower educated people. This has inspired clai

Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Research seminar with Kari Andén-Papadopoulos, Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm university. At the Institu

This paper proposes that education systems can be studied in relation to the welfare state and knowledge society in the global age through discussing the aims of education in relation to core values o

Kristian Lasslett

Kristian is an investigative criminologist specialising in the study of elite networks involved in the organisation of serious economic crime. His research focuses thematically on grand corruption, kl

This paper examines whether a hidden potential for rural population growth can be found in Sweden through investigating survey data of people expressing their desire to move to rural areas, and regist

Kremlin influence and the destabilization of Swedish democracy

An analysis of geostrategic market offensives, Russian influence operations, Swedish partners, and the threat of oligarchic capitalism

Malcolm Fairbrother

I am a professor of sociology at Uppsala University, and a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. I moved to Sweden in 2017, after spending ten years at Bristol University in the UK. Before