In this episode of AI: Tools or Gods?, philosopher and researcher Pia Lauritzen explores the role of questions in an age increasingly defined by answers. Drawing on decades of research into human questioning, she argues that while AI can help us solve problems faster, it cannot tell us what is worth pursuing, why it matters, or how we should live. The conversation examines curiosity, critical thinking, technology, and the uniquely human capacity to ask meaningful questions.
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Guest
Pia Lauritzen is a Danish philosopher, tech inventor, and the person who has spent twenty-five years studying something the rest of us take entirely for granted: questions. She has analysed more than 30,000 questions asked by people across the world, written five books, and created two digital tools, Qvest and Question Jam, to give many thousands of people access to the power of asking. She writes a regular column on tech and transformation for Forbes, and her TEDx talk on what we don't know about questions has introduced her research to audiences far beyond academia. She is, in the most literal sense, a philosopher of the question. And in a world that is increasingly obsessed with answers, that turns out to be exactly the perspective we need.
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What is AI: Tools or Gods??
What happens when we stop treating AI as a force of nature and start treating it as what it is: a political choice?
AI: Tools or Gods? is a podcast about the stories we tell about artificial intelligence and why they matter. Each episode, host Caroline De Cock talks with researchers, lawyers, policymakers, and advocates who are building a more grounded, democratic alternative to the dominant AI narrative. No prophecies. No panic. Just honest, rigorous conversation about power, accountability, and what technology is actually for.
A companion to the book AI Tools, Not Gods (BTF Press, 2026, foreword by Brewster Kahle) and a production of information labs.