Behavior analyst / psychologist / teacher
A public archive for essays and opinion pieces by Helgi S. Karlsson. The writing focuses on practical questions: how people learn, how new technology changes institutions, and what public systems need in order to earn trust.
Latest public piece · 13 September 2026
Supporting the adults around a child is part of supporting the child. On PISA, shared responsibility, and workable cooperation between home and school.
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The articles return to a few recurring questions: how AI is shaped, how people learn, how institutions earn trust, and what happens when infrastructure becomes visible in public life.
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AI as pressure system, developmental environment, and public responsibility.
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Data centers, energy, towns, and the body of systems people were told lived in the cloud.
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What thinking is for when machines can produce answers faster than schools can grade them.
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13 September 2026 / Icelandic and English
Original: PISA: Þegar allir þurfa létti, hver heldur þá utan um barnið?
Supporting the adults around a child is part of supporting the child. On PISA, shared responsibility, and workable cooperation between home and school.
2026 / Icelandic
Original: Börn læra ekki fyrir framtíð sem þau skynja ekki
Why children engage when purpose becomes visible, the next step manageable, and progress immediate.
2026 / Icelandic
Original: Gervigreind á ekki að hugsa fyrir okkur
AI should help us see the question more clearly, not outsource our own thinking.
2026 / English
AI infrastructure, energy, local consent, and abundance with accountability.
2026 / Icelandic
Original: Gervigreind er ekki sjálfkrafa góð eða slæm. Hún er alin upp.
AI as something raised by behavior, environment, incentives, and care.
2026 / Icelandic
Original: Enginn á að ýta Íslandi inn um bakdyrnar
Democracy, process legitimacy, public trust, and civic boundaries.
2026 / Icelandic
Original: Gervigreind í skólum: Svindl er ekki stóra spurningin
Schools should not only ask whether students cheat, but what thinking is for.
2025 / Icelandic
Original: Umbun er sama og afleiðing
Behavior analysis, children, reinforcement, consequence, and humane structure.
Radio interview · Bylgjan · 14 September 2026
On communication between parents and children, listening, trust, and the environment children need to flourish.
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