Venue: IDA Mødecenter, 12. maj kl. 9.00-17.30
This conference explores how communication by authorities influence public trust in a Nordic context. We examine how the academic recognition that science is socially constructed—a perspective often explored within Science and Technology Studies—has been co-opted by populist movements and skepticism spurred by social media, threatening the legitimacy of evidence-based medicine. This erosion of trust is evident across two critical frontiers: the retrospective analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic and the prospective integration of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare.
From the divergence of the Danish and Swedish pandemic responses to the opaque “black box” algorithms of Large Language Models (LLMs), we face a common dilemma: How do we communicate risk when we cannot offer guarantees? How do we balance the risks of morbidity against the risks of mental harm by social isolation? And how do we regulate the commercial determinants of health or determine screening thresholds in a responsible way?
The conference will feature talks by Anders Tegnell and Søren Brostrøm [tbc] who emerged as two of the most prominent European figures during the COVID-19 pandemic, representing somewhat contrasting philosophies of crisis management and risk communication. Michael Bang Petersen (Aarhus University) will describe how his influential and comprehensive HOPE project has revealed interrelations between risk communication and trust with sustained, long-term public cooperation, while also highlighting that “pandemic fatigue” – the exhaustion from restrictions – directly fueled political discontent across n democracies. Ragnar Löfstedt and Frederic Bouder will similarly suggest a framework for risk communication that supports regulators and institutions in rebuilding trust and maintaining legitimacy even when navigating high levels of scientific uncertainty and public polarization.
Venue: IDA Mødecenter. Sign-up and programme to appear.
Organized by IDA Risk, King’s Center for Risk Management, London, and DSKS Forskning
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