People
Team
SAIF is deliberately interdisciplinary: philosophy and bioethics, law and governance, informatics, and futures studies — drawn from four faculties and research environments, because no single discipline can answer what sustainable AI for flourishing requires.
Philosophy of technology
Henrik Skaug Sætra
Principal Investigator
Philosophy and ethics of technology; AI, sustainability, and democracy. Leads the Technology and Sustainable Futures research group.
Department of Informatics · Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences · University of Oslo
Bioethics
Anna Smajdor
Core team
Practical philosophy and bioethics; medical and reproductive ethics, and the ethics of emerging science.
Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas · Faculty of Humanities · University of Oslo
Law
Beate Sjåfjell
Core team
Company law, corporate sustainability, and the legal instruments of sustainable business.
Centre for Global Sustainability (GLOBE) & Faculty of Law · University of Oslo
Law
Malcolm Langford
Core team
Public law, human rights, and the governance of digitalization.
Department of Public and International Law · Faculty of Law · University of Oslo
Informatics
Pooya Zakeri
Core team
Machine learning and computational biology, with a side interest in the philosophy of technology.
Department of Informatics · Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences · University of Oslo
Informatics
Morten Dæhlen
Core team
Scientific computing and digitalization; long experience leading interdisciplinary research at the intersection of computing and society.
Department of Informatics · Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences · University of Oslo
Philosophy
Larissa Bolte
Postdoctoral researcher · starting shortly
Ethics of sustainable AI; sustainability as a theoretical lens for AI ethics. Joining from the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab, University of Bonn.
Technology and Sustainable Futures group · Department of Informatics · University of Oslo
Informatics · Futures
Ryan Wesley Hamilton
Doctoral research fellow
Intersections of sustainability, technology, and ecological philosophy; AI, multispecies flourishing, and socio-environmental imaginaries.
Technology and Sustainable Futures group · Department of Informatics · University of Oslo
Philosophy · Futures
Enya Esuna Rogerson
Doctoral research fellow
Philosophy and futures of technology; human–AI relations through posthuman and decolonial perspectives.
Technology and Sustainable Futures group · Department of Informatics · University of Oslo
Cultural history
Helge Jordheim
Support
History of concepts and temporalities — progress, crisis, sustainability — and what it takes to think long-term. Leads the Centre for Global Sustainability.
Centre for Global Sustainability · Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages · University of Oslo