SLATE invites you to see our Postdoc Anja Salzmann lecture on critical perspectives on Large Language Models (LLMs) during this year’s NORA Summer Research School!
This June, NORA Summer Research School will offer five intensive PhD courses at the University of Oslo on current topics within the field of Artificial Intelligence. All the courses have lecturers from Norwegian partner institutions. Although the courses primarily target PhD candidates, they are also open to a wider audience.
• Registration deadline: April 5th, 2026. Register for the course here.
• The courses will take place in parallel sessions, which means each participant can only enroll in ONE of the courses.
• Each course yields 5 ECTS.
• To support travel to Oslo from other Norwegian cities, travel stipends are available for students at NORA’s partner institutions.
SLATE Postdoctoral Fellow Anja Salzmann will be a lecturer for one of the five courses: The perception of human language in LLMs: Critical perspectives on language, bias, culture, politics and ethics in Large Language Models and the implementation of these.
Read more about the five NORA Summer Research School PhD courses.
With the introduction of Large Language Models (LLMs), we are confronted with the fact that machines produce linguistic output that simulates human reasoning in a very convincing manner, that enables parasocial interactions and relationships (between humans and machines) and the manufacturing of authenticity.
The interdisciplinary PhD course invites students from a wide range of backgrounds to learn, reflect and discuss together about issues that arise in critical debates on the societal introduction and consequences of LLMs.
To prepare for the PhD course, Anja Salzmann is collaborating with Ida Jahr (University of Inland Norway and MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity), Leonora Onarheim Bergsjø (Østfold University of Applied Sciences and Agder University), Jessica Pedersen Belisle Hansen (Østfold University of Applied Sciences) and Samia Touileb (University of Bergen).
Dr. Anja Salzmann has expertise in research on the adoption of complex socio-technical systems by societal risk groups and in applying strategies and methods of the European Policy Framework Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). She is actively engaged in public debates about digitalisation in Norwegian schools, AI and ethics as well as societal consequences of dataveillance, digital (non-)human-centered technologies.
Currently, Dr. Salzmann is especially interested in questions on responsible development, assessment and adoption of desirable AI technologies in education that are human-centered, ecological sustainable and promoting social justice. She is also interested in implications of increasing rapid and chaotic digitalization from macro-sociological perspectives on journalism, the public sphere and democracy as well as cybernetic governance approaches.
