Something about me
I HAVE BEEN WORKING as a freelance journalist for 16 years. At the same time, I have also as a project leader, editor, journalist, helped, for example, the City of Stockholm, the European Union, the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and arts centre Färgfabriken reach out in original and engaging ways through words and images. Presently, I have created two online magazines focusing on science in different ways. Tredje Sidan wants to focus early on on uncomfortable and crucial societal issues. When it is still possible to influence the outcome. Swedish media, the very influential part, and responsible politicians, often are not able to discuss highly sensitive and great societal challenges quickly in an open and critical way. We missed out on fast and efficient reforms to tackle gang criminality. On Tredje Sidan -- a link is provided below -- four new articles by me from autumn of 2025 have been posted and they are about how AI existentially threatens us in different ways. The sources for those are the foremost US AI researchers and the few leaders of the AI companies fighting to reach Superintelligence first. With few exceptions, they believe Superintelligence will arrive in a few years. Less than ten seems to be the average. The articles are about (1) Swedish politicians must understand that a universal basic income, UBI (medborgarlön), is required if AI quickly causes real mass unemployment, which those with most insight into AI development believe will happen. (2) Superintelligence risks leading to catastrophe for humans. It can happen in many ways. AI models ChatGPT and Claude themselves tell me in interviews how they can help in creating a lethal virus when we reach Superintelligence. It will only take a couple of tools and a motivated and intelligent individual to create a lethal virus when Superintelligence arrives, they tell me. (3) How can Europe compete economically when the US and China -- with their own Superintelligence -- will be able to manufacture new revolutionary products that outcompete the old continent's? The only way for Europe to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic is to develop Superintelligence too. That is, if we manage to create safe Superintelligence. (4) There are approximately 900,000 individuals in the Stockholm region´s queue to rent an apartment. The average waiting time is almost ten years. The risk of ending up in one of Stockholm´s not very pleasant suburbs is great. This article is focused on the fact that it would not be too difficult, with clever methods, and not too expensive, with government subsidies, to build municipal housing for rent of high quality for this large group that cannot afford to buy their own home. Vienna is a successful example to follow. The articles can be read on website Tredje Sidan. Five more will be posted soon. My hope is that clear-sighted researchers with brave, original, judicious and urgent analyses and opinions will want to write about critical societal challenges that have to be solved urgently. This requires a broad foundation of critical knowledge. It is highly interesting to read more speculative and brave texts from people who are informed. What could happen? Shorter or longer texts. Skolkunskap.se consists of mainly podcast interviews with researchers with interesting established and new knowledge that can help teachers help more secondary school/ high school (högstadiet) students gain upper secondary school (gymnasiet) entrance qualifications. In schools in socio-economically vulnerable areas, only 60-70 percent often gain entrance qualifications.
As a writing journalist -- here you will find samples of articles I have written over the years -- my areas of work are mainly stories about social and individual challenges, science and architecture.
I have, for example, worked for the Union for social workers, which has a scientific magazine called Socionomen, Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council) and for Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter, the two major morning papers in Sweden, as well as for Arkitektur (magazine for architects) and British Architectural Design.
I produce video interviews (7 selected) focused on personal stories, and urgent social issues, for the Internet. I also interview scientists and architects. Clients have been, amongst others, Liber Läromedel (a company for teaching materials), Forum för Levande Historia (the Living History Forum), and an interview with an author presenting his new book published by Norstedts (Swedish book publisher).
I spent two years at Gothenburg university studying information production, journalism and television production -- and then political sciece and economics at Stockholm university for two years. Six months were spent at Universidad de Granada in Spain, and the same amount of time at Université de Grenoble in France, where my subjects were languages and Social Studies.
I write and speak Swedish and English with fluency.
Best regards Timothy Tore Hebb +46 (0) 723 036 222 Gambrinusgatan 3 112 31 Stockholm Sweden
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