History professor Thomas Brandt from NTNU will draw long lines and shed light on many different research and development environments that have worked steadily for over 80 years, with a marked increase in resource access in the last couple of decades.

History will show progress and setbacks, disagreements and inequalities, and how the development and the narrative about it have been colored by different interests and word choices, and throughout the years caught between bragging and promotion ("hype") from researchers and technology and industry circles, and scare stories and warnings from various quarters about the dangers lurking in technological developments.

Speaker Thomas Brandt is a professor of history at the Faculty of Humanities, NTNU. His academic interests have focused particularly on the history of technology and science. He has written the history chapter in the recent book on artificial intelligence from NTNU, "Humanities Perspectives on AI. An Interdisciplinary Introduction". The book provides perspectives from humanities subjects on artificial intelligence, and the background, possibilities and limitations of these technologies. It provides an understanding of and invites reflection on how AI affects us and the social, cultural and political contexts in which we live.

The event is free and there will be light refreshments in the museum's café from 4 p.m. for those who have pre-registered.