kAi-evening: We get the AI Society We Demand: A Trustworthy AI Perspective

In this month's kAI-evening, we'll explore how trustworthy AI is not a property we're given, but a standard we demand. This month lecture will be held by Magnus Westerlund. 

  • Date: 4 November 2026
  • Time: 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM (doors open at 5:00 PM, with networking from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM)
  • Location: Kirkegata 24, BI-02

kAI evenings are organized by Kristianias AI-center (kAI) and the lecture will be held in English.

The event is free and open to everyone, but registration is required:

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Programme

  • 5:00 PM: Doors open. Coffee and fruit will be served.
  • 5:30 PM: Introduction to the Kristiania AI Centre (kAI) by Professor and Director of kAI), Pedro Lind from Kristiania University of Applied Sciences. Followed by an introduction of the speaker by an introduction of the speaker, Magnus Westerlund, by Associate Professor Gabriel Balaban. 
  • 5:35 PM: “We get the AI Society We Demand: A Trustworthy AI Perspective” – lecture by Associate Professor at Kristiania
    Magnus Westerlund, followed by a Q&A session.
  • 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM: Networking and light refreshments. An opportunity to continue the conversation and connect with fellow participants from a range of disciplines.

About this month kAI-evening

AI is usually discussed as something that happens to us, like a paper to write, advice to interact on, a forecast to prepare for. This talk argues the opposite. The AI-enabled society we end up with will be shaped less by what the technology makes possible than by what citizens, professionals and institutions insist on, and by what we quietly accept.

We begin by asking what we actually mean by an AI-enabled society, and what changes strategically once an abundance of X becomes a reality. Drawing on experience from assessing real AI systems in healthcare and other high-stakes settings with the ZInspection Trustworthy AI self-assessment process, we then examine the European
principles that define trustworthy AI and what it takes in practice to hold a system to them.

As a conclusion we learn that trustworthy AI is not a property we are given, but a standard we demand.

Portrait of Magnus Westerlund

Magnus Westerlund

Magnus Westerlund (DSc) is Associate Professor at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences, Oslo, and Chair of the Association for Responsible and Trustworthy AI (Stockholm), coleading the Z-Inspection® initiative for assessing trustworthy AI.

He holds a Principal Lecturer position at Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, and is a Senior Researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Turku.

His research covers assessment methodology, ML operations, system provenance, and regulatory compliance for AI in high-stakes domains.

He is a co-PI at Åbo Akademi for the HE project UNCAN-Connect, building federated infrastructure for cross-border cancer research under the EU Mission on Cancer. 

He is also PI at Arcada for the HE projects ACHILLES and MANOLO, and DeployAI, the Digital Europe flagship project delivering the European AI-on-Demand Platform for SMEs and the public sector.

He is a member of the national standardisation committee for artificial intelligence under SFS, the Finnish Standards Association.