Category: Artificial Intelligence
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It’s been over 3 weeks since we first heard the news that Palantir CEO and Tech billionaire Alex Karp bought land in Härjedalen, Sweden, through his company Caladonia Skog AB. This “piece” of land (37,000 acres) corresponds to approximately the total land area of the Municipality of Malmö. On this land, you find high-mountain terrain,…
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The library services at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences invited me to participate in a panel on AI research and trust (see picture above and below) on Wednesday, the 23rd of September. I was very excited to contribute to this very important issue, which also gave me good reasons to read and study more on this topic.…
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by Tina Vrieler Abstract This short essay offers a critique of A Manifesto for Education by Gert Biesta and Carl Anders Säfström (2011), identifying three key assumptions that limit its transformative potential: (i) A vague notion of freedom as an alternative to educational idealism, (ii) freedom without liberation and beyond oppression, and (iii) epistemological exclusivity…
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My thesis, titled “Advancing Social Justice in Code Club Education: Exploring Participation, Pedagogy, and Computer Science Capital,” can be accessed here. The defense was held on Friday, the 13th of June 2025. I now work for Western Norway Research Institute in the beautiful town of Sogndal, Norway. Latest news: Finally, after a long year of waiting,…
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Someone mentioned on Facebook that the total energy used by AI is now equivalent to Japan’s entire energy consumption. Later, I read a blog post that said data centers alone consumed “almost 2 percent of global energy demand in 2022”[1] — and that this demand could double by 2026, which would make it roughly equal…
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My first Koli Calling experience was in 2013. There I was, an undergrad presenting a paper on informal learning through Facebook, feeling like a fish out of water among the senior researchers. I had many doubts: Did I belong here? Would these experts find my work worthwhile? What would they think of my presentation? I…
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I am happy to share that my latest research publication (and the fourth paper of my thesis) is now available online. The title of the paper is “A Case Study of a Code Club’s Inclusion Policy and How It Is Implemented Online and in the Classroom”. The study examines how Kodcentrum’s practitioners/teachers work with inclusive…
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Supervision and guidance in reviewing a PhD student’s work have been on my mind lately. I have been working intensely on my fourth PhD article and, therefore, received quite some feedback from my supervisors. Even though I think that supervising PhD students is a rewarding activity, it does come with challenges. If I’d be lucky…
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During the past year, I have served as the chair of the PhD student council at Uppsala University’s faculty of science and technology. I applied for the chair position mostly because I wanted to learn about how the university functions. I will admit that the application was also a strategic move since it looks nice…
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I am currently reading a very interesting course in the philosophy of artificial intelligence. This week I got introduced to The Frame Problem of AI, and I thoroughly enjoyed this reading so I thought I’d share my post on the assignment with you. According to Dennett, the frame problem is an epistemological problem rather than…
