I am happy to give general audience talks about subjects ranging from softer aspects of information technology such as social networks and internet search engines, to hard computer science topics such as algorithms and complexity. I have tagged brief descriptions of earlier talks with

• Popular Science Talks

My languages are English, Danish, Swedish, or German. Contact me if you are interested.

Below is an incomplete list of past and upcoming general audience talks and contributions to media:

Video

My current video project is the Cast IT podcast videos.

Other appearances on video:

• 15 September 2022, explainer about matching algorithms on DR Deadline show about Tinder (Danish, 6m).
• 8 Mar 2021, An introduction to algorithmic fairness, keynote lecture at Gothenburg Artificial Intelligence Alliance (GAIA) conference, Gothenburg, focus on definitions of group fairness.
• 5 Nov 2019, Algorithms, Explained. Inaugural lecture as full professor at ITU Copenhagen.
• 25 Apr 2019, Kunstig intelligens – på vej mod apokalypsen? (English, conversation with Olle Häggström moderated by Christiane Vejlø, 90 minutes.) ITU Forskningens døgn. (Related interview at ITU, Danish.)
• 22 Nov 2018, Hur smart är konstgjord intelligens?. (Swedish, panel debate, 45 minutes.) Debatt i Lund (summary page).
• June 2018, What is the plausibility of dystopian Sci-Fi predictions?, long (1h) conversation with Etienne Augé and Christiane Vejlø, from the Heartland Festival Future Talks series 2018.
• 7 Sep 2017, Plausibility and utility of apocalyptic AI scenarios (English, lecture, Q&A, 43 minutes.) Presented at the workshop of the Gothenburg Chair Programme for Advanced Studies (GoCAS) “Existential risk to humanity”, Gothenburg 2017. [slides]
• 2016. AI och existentiell risk (Swedish, TV, UR Samtiden). Panel debate on AI and existential risk. Gothenburg Science Festival.
• April 2014, Sladrehanken (3:8). (Danish.) DR3. Quiz show about digital footprints we leave on the internet. (No longer archived.)
• 2014, The Hilbert Heartbreak Hotel (English, interview), about a composition by Niels Marthinsen. IT University of Copenhagen.
• 2012, Sex, lies, and videotape (English, ultra short lecture, 7 minutes). Competitive popular science standup (“Science Slam”). Lund University.
• 12 Mar 2012, Utopier i science fiction och datavetenskap (Swedish, lecture, 26 minutes). About basic computational complexity from a Sci-Fi perspective. Archived at Utbildningsradion. Related blog entries: Impagliazzo’s five worlds on Swedish TV, Views of Impagliazzo’s five worlds, Datalogi för nybörjare.
• 24 Apr 2012, Caught in the Web? Or armed for revolution? (Swedish) panel debate at Debatt i Lund (streamed at newsmill.se). Full webcast archive (1 hour). Summary on YouTube(6 minutes)
• 8 Sep 2011, Hvordan fungerer Google? or Da Google ændrede alting (Danish) TV programme (22 minutes) about Google’s Pagerank algorithm, aired at 15:20 on Danish public television channel DR2. Several reruns, available online. Written and directed (and partially narrated) by me, produced by ITU with (I think) amazing production values.
• 31 Mar 2011, on national Danish TV news, TV-Avisen (starts around 24m30s), explaining HTTP Cookies.

Audio

I host the Cast IT podcast, where I have long conversations with other academics on foundational issues of IT.

• December 2022, Alan Turing – datageni, kodknäckare och gayikon (29, in broken Swedish). Life and work of Alan Turing; Swedish public radio’s popular science show SR Bildningsbyrån – tänka mot strömmen.
• August 2022, A conversation with Thore Husfeldt (1h24m) on Nutan Limaye’s podcast Life of a Researcher.
• April 2022, Kram eller kram – er internettet hjælper eller skurk i moderne kærlighed? (Danish), explainer about the matching algorithms behind dating apps on Christiane Vejløs podcast Del & like.
• December 2021, Algoritmer och akademisk frihet, (1h28m, in Swedish – or what-Thore-thinks-is-Swedish), on the Vetenskapligt med Häggström och Livh_ podcast.
• June 2018, Etienne Augé & Thore Husfeldt, long conversation (1h) about technological dystopias and science fiction, from the Heartland Festival Future Talks series 2018.
• 12 November 2017, Algorithms, Social Media, and Society, long interview (1h) at the Social Media and Politics podcast.
• 18 April 2013, E-val är “en lösning i jakt på ett problem”, Swedish Public Radio P1, Vetenskapsradions veckomagasin. Interview about electronic voting.
• 4 Dec 2012, Alan Turing ville bygga en hjärna. Montage and interview (19 min) about Alan Turing at Swedish Public Radio P1, Vetandes Värld.
• 23 Aug 2012, brief interview about internet tracking and cookies in Pressen på P3 (in Danish).
• 30 Jun 2012, Alan Turing (in Danish). Long montage (40 min) about Alan Turing with Hans Hüttel (Aalborg University) at Radio 24syv.
• 4 Aug 2011, Konservative Wikipedia går sin sejrsgang over hele verden, (Danish public radio) P1 Morgen. About Wikipedia.
• 4 Jun 2011, Internettet smadrer demokratiet, (Danish public radio) P1 Morgen, 7m45s, around 9:30. About the Filter Bubble.
• 14 August 2010. Matematiske problemer bliver løst i fællesskab på nettet. Interview in Danish radio programme DR P1 Morgen, about Vinay Deolalikar’s attempt at separating P from NP. [DR archive (includes audio)]

Print

• Feb 2021, Adas drøm blev til virkeligehed, about algorithms in Prosabladet.
• 8 Jun 2019, Vi skal ikke frygte robotter, vi skal frygte selv at blive til robotter, opinion piece, Information.
• 19 Nov 2018, Om frihet är målet behövs en plan för hur ett samhälle utan arbete ska organiseras, Opinion piece on social aspects of artificial intelligence, with Olle Häggström, Sydsvenska dagbladet.
• 12 June 2013, E-röstning kan testas om 5 år, Ny Teknik. About electronic voting.
• 28 Apr 2013, E-rösta är en dålig idé, Sydsvenska Dagbladet. Opinion piece about electronic elections.
• February 2013, Nettet: Puslespil til milliarder, Bibliotekarforbundets magasin Perspektiv. Quotes on algorithmic news curation, programming in school.
• 29 December 2012 Datalogen: Brug julen på datalogiens Darwin og hans digitale univers, Book reviews of Hodges’s Alan Turing, Dyson’s Turing’s Cathedral, and Davis’s The Universal Computer.
• 2 Jan 2012, Algoritmerna väljer din musiksmak, Svenska Dagbladet, Kultur. About recommendation systems.
• 15 Aug 2011, Isolarde i nätbubblan, Svenska Dagbladet, Kultur. About the filter bubble.
• 1 Jun 2011, Det hele handler om dig, (Danish weekly) Weekendavisen 20, p. I1, I4. About the Filter Bubble.
• 17 December 2010. Kan de lade sig gøre at stoppe Wikileaks?. Article about Wikileaks in Danish Science news site videnskab.dk.
• 16 November 2010. ‘Troldmanden fra Oz’ er verdens vigtigste film. Article about Filmrank in Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet.
• 15 November 2010. Google-algoritme kårer verdens vigtigste film. Article about Filmrank in Ingeniøren.
• 12 November 2010. Verdens viktigste filmer. Article about Filmrank in Norwegian science newsletter forskning.no. Verdas viktigaste filmar in Norwegian internet paper framtida.no.
• 20 October 2010. Verdens vigtigste film er fundet. Article about Filmrank in Filmmagasinet Ekko (In Danish).
• 25 September 2009. En grøn computer er god til at regne den ud. Interview in Danish magazine Samvirke. About algorithms as “Green IT”. [Samvirke archive]
• 2 October 2009. Lysindfald ganget med vand. Interview in Danish paper Weekendavisen, Ideer, p. 1–2. About algorithmic and scientific challenges posed by massive data.

General audience talks

(Does not repeat those talks that are available in video or audio.)

• 4 Nov 2021. Digitisation in higher education. Keynote talk at Nasjonal konferanse: Digitalisering i høyere utdanning 2021, Bergen, Norway.
• 1 Nov 2021. Algoritmer og informationssøgning. Årsmøde for Gymnasiernes, Akademiernes og Erhvervsskolernes Biblioteksforening, GAEB.
• 11 Mar 2021. Algoritmer, forklaret. PROSA, Danmark.
• 9 Maj 2019. Artificiell intelligens. Rotary, Höör.
• 4 Feb 2019. Artificiell intelligens. Lundaakademikerna, Lund.
• 28 Feb 2018. Det artificiella hotet. Dunkers kulturhus, Helsingborg.
• 25 Apr 2017. Er kunstig intelligens fordomsfuld? (Danish), short talk on AI bias. Hvilke spørgsmål stiller kunstig intelligens os over for? Panel debate about AI risks. ENIGMA Copenhagen, Information (arr.)
• 28 Nov 2012, Søgealgoritmer fra siderang til filterboble, Dansk datahistorisk forening (DDHF), KEA – Københavns Erhvervsakademi – Medie og IT, København.
• 17 Nov 2012, Democracy in the Digital Society, The Association of Foreign Affairs, Lund (announcement).
• 23 Oct 2012, Från ARPANET till filterbubblan: Hur Facebook och Google anpassar verkligheten, SUNET-veckan 2012, Malmö.
• 25, 26 Sep 2012, Filterbubblan: hur Facebook och Google anpassar verkligheten, Teknik- och naturvetarcirkeln 2012, “Datorernas Darwin: Alan Turing 100 år”. Halmstad, Lund.
• 15 Sep 2012, Kulturnatten i Lund. 3 appearances: Blir datorer smartare än människor?, (30 min.) popular science lecture on AI and computational complexity. Sex, lögner och videoband, Sex, lies, and videotape, (8 min.) Science Slam entries about personalisation algorithms.
• 5 Jul 2012, Sex, lögner och videoband; Science Slam lecture at Lund University’s Almedalen event in Visby, Gotland (in Swedish). Video recording.
• 23 June 2012, 19:30 Let us Calculate! – From Leibniz to Turing. About Alan Turing’s contribution to our intellectual history. Opening lecture on occasion of Turing’s birthday in a lecture series arranged by Bergen University for the Turing centenary.
• 19 Apr 2012, Hvordan Google virker, general audience lecture for Forskningens døgn 2012.
• 18 Apr 2012, Alan Turing i samtidskunst, general audience lecture at art school ignatius.dk.
• 19 January 2011, 19.00 Alan Turing lecture at Malmö Konsthall in connection with an exhibition of Danish artist Henrik Olesen.
• 5–7 October 2010. Alan Turing: människan som maskin. General audience talk in Folkuniversitetets Teknik- och Naturvetarcirkel. About Alan Turing and his work. Halmstad, Lund, Växjö.
• 22–24 April 2010. Hvordan Google virker. Forskningens døgn 2010 , various lectures in Greater Copenhagen.
• 3-5 November 2009. Livets träd och sociala nät – grafer, algoritmer och evolution från biologi till Google. Folkuniversitetets Teknik- och naturvetarcirkeln. Lectures about the algorithmic lens on biology in Halmstad, Lund, and Växjö in the series Darwin – inte bara evolution.
• 10 December 2008. Regel 30 – om cellulära automater i naturen och vetenskapen. “Electrohype 2008” Fifth Biennial for Computer Based Art, Malmö Konsthall. Del av föreläsningsserien “Summen är större än helheten.”
• 10 October 2008. Origami, gaveindpakning og hvordan man folder et vejkort. Københavns kulturnat, ITU.
• 6 juni 2007. En linneansk resa från taxonomiberäkning till beräkningstaxonomi. Botaniska trädgården, Lund; del av en serie sk “linnéföredrag” i samband med linnéfirandet på nationaldagen.
• 3 March 2005. Origami, presentinslagning och hur man viker en bilkarta. Arbetslag Bästa formen, SVT Malmö.
• 9–11 March 2004. Origami, presentinslagning och hur man viker en bilkarta. Lunds universitet, Naturvetenskap och teknikdagar för gymnasieelever.