Åke Elden, PhD
Research Advisor · NLA University College · Oslo, Norway
Email: akeeld@nla.no
ORCID: 0009-0003-0965-7666
Research programme
My research investigates the philosophical and theological conditions of human judgment, responsibility, and formation in the age of artificial intelligence. Rather than asking what AI can do, I examine the background conditions that make distinctly human capacities possible — and what happens when technological systems relocate, conceal, or reshape those conditions.
How does artificial intelligence transform the conditions that make human judgment, responsibility, and moral formation possible?
Research areas
- — Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
- — Philosophy of Technology
- — Theological Anthropology
- — Ethics
- — Epistemology
- — Philosophy of Science
Key concepts
- — Subtractive Redescription
- — Inferential License
- — Epistemic Infrastructure
- — Artificial Answerability
- — Institutional Answerability
- — Predictive Mediation
Selected publications and research themes
- AI-mediated judgment and the redistribution of inferential license.
- Institutional answerability under conditions of algorithmic delegation.
- Theological anthropology and human formation under technological mediation.
- Epistemic infrastructure as a condition for responsible AI evaluation.
- Subtractive redescription in clinical and administrative decision support.
- Predictive mediation and the ethics of forecast-shaped situations.
A full list of peer-reviewed publications is maintained through the scholarly profiles below.