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Hanna Wass: Too much of a good thing? The future of the antifragile democracy
Hanna Wass is an Academy Research Fellow and University Lecturer in the Department of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki. ABSTRACT As a potentially antifragile system, the stre
Qué futuro tiene el futuro? El País reports on our AI research
"We live in an unpredictable time, the leading experts in artifical intelligence tell us. They have no answers and ordinary citizens are not even capable of asking the pertinent questions. We traveled

Jason Tucker
I am a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the AI Policy Lab, the Department of Computing Science, Umeå University. I am also a Visting Research Fello funded by WASP-HS. Within this I am particularly interested in developing interdisciplinary approaches to better support policy making on the future role of AI in healthcare. Previously I have worked on law and policy reform, citizenship and public sector digitalisation, having done so for the United Nations, civil society, industry and in academia.
Global sex differences in hygiene norms and their relation to sex equality
Plos Gloal Public Health Abstract Strict norms about hygiene may sometimes have health benefits but may also be a burden. Based on research in the United States, it has been suggested that women traditi

Did the COVID-19 pandemic change our social norms?
As you might remember, a lot of our social behaviors changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we perceived the behaviors of others. What was once deemed acceptable behavior became scrutinized, wi
Shame or hope? How should we feel about climate change?
Is it okay to enjoy warmer summers, given they are caused by climate change? Should we feel shame when we fly? Is anxiety an overreaction, or a rational response to the current climate crisis? There i
Social Science Postdoctoral Researcher to Study the Diffusion of AI
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in the project “Predicting the diffusion of AI-applications”.