Blar i Tidsskrift- og avisartikler. ØSS på forfatter "Sætra, Henrik Skaug"
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Exploring the use of agent-based modelling (ABM) in mixed methods research
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Agent-based modeling (ABM) is in many ways an outsider in social research methods, but I will here argue that it has an important role to play in combination with other methods and approaches. ABM can be used in ways that ... -
First, They Came for the Old and Demented: Care and Relations in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Social Robots
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07-04)Health care technology is all the rage, and artificial intelligence (AI) has long since made its inroads into the previously human-dominated domain of care. AI is used in diagnostics, but also in therapy and assistance, ... -
The foundations of a policy for the use of social robots in care
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Should we deploy social robots in care settings? This question, asked from a policy standpoint, requires that we understand the potential benefits and downsides of deploying social robots in care situations. Potential ... -
Freedom under the gaze of Big Brother: Preparing the grounds for a liberal defence of privacy in the era of Big Data
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-08)‘Big Brother is watching you!’ the posters in Orwell's Oceania told all its inhabitants. We have no such posters, but we live in the era of Big Data, and someone is watching us. Here, I discuss how Big Data is an omniscient ... -
The limits of a Lockean Environmentalism: God, Human Beings, and Nature in Locke's philosophy
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06-22)God gave us the Earth, to use and enjoy. So says the Bible, and so says John Locke (1632-1704). The individualism and liberalism in Locke’s philosophy makes it decidedly modern and appealing to us today. However, he often ... -
The Parasitic Nature of Social AI: Sharing Minds with the Mindless
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03-17)Can artificial intelligence (AI) develop the potential to be our partner, and will we be as sensitive to its social signals as we are to those of human beings? I examine both of these questions and how cultural psychology ... -
Privacy as an aggregate public good
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09-23)Privacy relates to individuals and their ability to keep certain aspects of themselves away from other individuals and organisations. This leads both proponents and opponents of liberalism to argue that liberalism involves ... -
Science as a Vocation in the Era of Big Data: the Philosophy of Science behind Big Data and humanity’s Continued Part in Science
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-05)We now live in the era of big data, and according to its proponents, big data is poised to change science as we know it. Claims of having no theory and no ideology are made, and there is an assumption that the results of ... -
A shallow defence of a technocracy of artificial intelligence: Examining the political harms of algorithmic governance in the domain of government
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven to be superior to human decision-making in certain areas. This is partic-ularly the case whenever there is a need for advanced strategic reasoning and analysis of vast amounts of ... -
The Ghost in the Machine: Being Human in the Age of AI and Machine Learning
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-19)Human beings have used technology to improve their efficiency throughout history. We continue to do so today, but we are no longer only using technology to perform physical tasks. Today, we make computers that are smart ... -
The tyranny of perceived opinion: Freedom and information in the era of big data
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-08)Never before have we had access to as much information as we do today, but how do we avail ourselves of it? In parallel with the increase in the amount of information, we have created means of curating and delivering it ... -
Towards a Hobbesian liberal democracy through a Maslowian hierarchy of needs
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Thomas Hobbes is a mainstay in political theory, but his political philosophy is often perceived as being marred by his insistence on absolute power and the rule of one—or the few. In this article I examine how a ... -
When nudge comes to shove: Liberty and nudging in the era of big data
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-26)In this article, I examine how nudging powered by Big Data relates to both negative and positive liberty. I focus in particular on how liberty is affected by appeals to irrational mechanisms. I conclude that it is problematic ...