About the webinar
In Norway, ethical approval is first and foremost needed for research within medicine and health sciences. This entails that artificial intelligence research in many cases does not need such approval. In the webinar, we will discuss:
- Is this a solution that benefits Norwegian researchers and research participants?
- What would a different solution potentially look like?
Introduction by Heidi Beate Bentzen, with comments from Ellen-Marie Forsberg.
Heidi Beate Bentzen is a lawyer and researcher at the Center for Medical Ethics, UiO, at at the Cancer Registry/ Norwegian Institute of Public Health, with a particular focus on new technologies and management of personal data on a large scale. She is a member of REK, regularly does ethical evaluations on behalf of the EU Commission, is an ethics adviser for several large EU projects, and was a member of the working group led by the Ministry of Education and Research on establishing a collaboration on artificial intelligens on a national level between Norway and the USA.
Ellen-Marie Forsberg is CEO and senior researcher at NORSUS. Forsberg has a PhD in philosophy, with a focus on applied ethics, and does research on projects within applied research and innovation. She is currently participating in the CHANGER project, which studies challenges and changes in assessment systems for research ethics.
Zoom link will be sent to participants before the webinar, which will be held in Norwegian. Read more and register on the National Research Ethics Committes' webpages.