This page presents upcoming and past AINCLUSION Book Club events, along with the purpose of the Club and how it works.
The AINCLUSION Book Club aims to build awareness and deepen understanding of artificial intelligence and its impact on society. We pay particular attention to risks related to marginalization, increasing polarization, and the possibility that AI systems may end up serving elites rather than the broader public.
Our events rely on volunteers who present a book to the rest of the community. All sessions are online, free, and open to everyone. If you have questions or would like to present a book yourself, please contact geir.hoydalsvik@gmail.com.
We plan 2–4 events per year. Each session lasts one hour and includes both presentation and discussion. Upcoming events are announced in advance so participants have time to read the book and prepare.
09.11.2026 Book Club With Geir Høydalsvik
Monday November 9th, 2026, 19-20 CET. Online. Call-in info and slides will be posted closer to the event.
This time, Geir Høydalsvik, volunteer at AINCLUSION, will present Yuval Noah Harari’s book Nexus (2024). The session will be online and open to everyone. The talk will highlight Harari’s core ideas about information networks, artificial intelligence, and how these shape bias and challenges inclusion.
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) is an Israeli historian and public intellectual, known globally for Sapiens (2014). In Sapiens, Harari explains how Homo sapiens came to dominate the planet through shared stories – mythologies, religions, nations, money, and bureaucracies – which allow large-scale cooperation.
In Nexus, Harari expands this idea by showing how human societies are built on information networks: spoken language, writing, printing, electronic communication, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. AI introduces non-human agents into these networks —systems that generate meaning, make decisions, and influence human behavior. As Harari puts it, the question is no longer what humans will do with AI, but what AI will do with humans.
A central theme in the book is bias. Harari argues that AI systems inherit the biases of the data they are trained on and can amplify them at scale. Because AI is relentless and operates continuously, it can reproduce and intensify the negative aspects of human information networks — including polarization, conflict, and discrimination. This creates new risks for democracies, which depend on shared reality and trustworthy institutions. Harari warns that minorities are often the first to suffer when information networks become distorted or weaponized.
During the session, Geir will explore:
How Harari connects shared stories to modern information networks
Why AI amplifies existing biases rather than eliminating them
What this means for inclusion, minority rights, and democratic stability
How we might build healthier information networks in the future
We welcome everyone interested in AI, society, and inclusion. Join us for an open conversation and reflection on one of the most important books of recent years.
14.09.2026 Book Club With Lars Bungum
This talk is hybrid. It takes place in the auditorium F6 in the building Gamle fysikk at NTNU Gløshaugen from which it is broadcast on Zoom. Please note that the building will be closed after office hours, which means you have to let us know you’re coming to let you in to be on the safe side (we’ll be at the main entrance in the in the minutes prior, though). Both Zoom and room are open for everyone.
Lars Bungum is a researcher at the NorwAI Research Center for AI Innovation. He is primarily interested in the development, alignment, and roll-out of Large Language Models, subsequent to data curation. While conducting his research on the capabilities and limits of this technology, he likes to ground applied science on literature from adjacent fields such as neuroscience, psycholinguistics, and basic research on artificial neural networks. This goes in tandem with a long-standing interest and commitment to a fiction as a valuable source of information, myth, prediction, and research opportunities.
Inspired by the literary scholar and AI philosopher N. Katherine Hayles, this talk will delve into a Swedish visionary fable from 1966, The Tale of the Big Computer by Hannes Alfvén (1908-1995). The book was published pseudonymously (as Olof Johannsson) in 1966 by the 1970 physics Nobel Laureate.
This book follows an interesting tradition of Swedish-language future visions from the mid-twentieth century, notably Kallocain (1941) by Karin Boye (1900-1941) and Aniara (1956) by the 1974 Nobel Laureate in literature, Harry Martinson (1904-1978). It is a fair assumption that Alfvén was familiar with both.
While primarily focused on the Tale, we will discuss their differences in outlook, perspective, and, possibly vision. After a presentation, there will be ample opportunity for others familiar with these twentieth-century gems to take part in a discussion on what we can learn from them.
As AI now injects itself in all walks of life, science fiction literature both past and present is a trove of wisdom to understand the challenges we are now facing. In this talk, the story will be outlined and put into context (also with the famous international dystopian novels of the twentieth century, Zamyatin‘s We, Huxley‘s Brave New World, and Orwell‘s Nineteen-Eightyfour).
All of the above-mentioned books are available in English.
23.03.2026 Book Club with Johan Falk
Join us for an engaging online conversation on AI, inclusion, and society, featuring journalist and author Johan Falk.
https://falkai.substack.com/ If you have not yet read the book see Johan’s blog.
The session includes a dialogue between Falk and Professor Letizia Jaccheri, exploring the impact of emerging technologies.
This event is hosted by Justyna Szynkiewicz and marks the pilot launch of the AINCLUSION Book Club.
You will get a link to the zoom before the event
The event will be held online.
Johan Falk
Johan Falk is a science journalist, physicist, teacher, and AI & Society foresight expert. He has worked for the Swedish National Agency for Education, where he led the national team on AI and education (2023–2024). Falk is the author of multiple books on artificial intelligence, including AI för nybörjare and KI for nybegynnere (Norwegian edition). He now runs the think tank Falk AI, focusing on AI education and societal-scale AI risks.
Letizia Jaccheri
Letizia Jaccheri is a Professor of Software Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She holds a Ph.D. from Politecnico di Torino and has led major research initiatives at the intersection of software engineering, gender balance, art, and inclusion. Jaccheri is an ACM Distinguished Speaker and has served as department head at NTNU (2013–2017). She leads the European COST Action EUGAIN on gender balance in informatics and has received multiple awards for her work in diversity and outreach.