How to ask in a world of AI answers?

Dr. Pia Lauritzen speaks at conferences and corporate events worldwide. Her most requested talks on AI and critical thinking include:

• How to ask questions in a world of AI answers? 

Do you think getting answers is the most important reason to ask questions? Think again. In a world drowning in AI answers, knowing why, when, what, and whom to ask has never been more important. Want to learn how to ask questions that lead, educate, and drive change in a world of AI answers?

• What the AI experts don’t tell you? 

You know AI is the future, but do you know what assumptions about humans and machines were built into AI from the very beginning? Did you know that Alan Turing, the founding father of AI, considered the question if machines can think "too meaningless to deserve discussion"? And do you know how it impacts the human ability to think and make decisions to be surrounded by machines designed to think and make decisions for them? 

• What is the art of leading in the AI era? 

When AI is said to improve everything from productivity to brand loyalty, it’s tempting to assume it can improve leadership too. So, is AI going to make for better leaders?

After the lecture, 15 minutes will be allocated for questions.

The lecture will serve as the public kick‑off to the orientation meetings for all students at the Institute of philosophy and first‑semester studies (IFF) and the Center for women's and gender research (SKK) at UiT.

See the full program for the day.

Dr. Pia Lauritzen is a Danish philosopher, tech inventor, and keynote speaker whose work explores how the questions we ask, and don't ask, shape our thinking, technology, and leadership. She has published six books, created the Qvest and Question Jam platforms, and analyzed more than 30,000 questions asked by people around the world. Her contributions have earned international recognition, including being shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Radar Award for showing how questions, not ready-made answers, define our future. In her regular column for Forbes, she asks big questions about tech and transformation, and she shares her research on LinkedIn Learning, podcasts, TED AI, and TEDx. Explore Pia Lauritzen’s professional life and engagement: https://www.pialauritzen.dk/ 

FROM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO ARTIFICIAL EXISTENCE?

Dr. Pia Lauritzen has published a new book in Danish, Når livet bliver kunstigt (When Life Becomes Artificial), Akademisk Forlag, København 2026. The book examines our relationship with technology and how it reshapes the way we think and live.

Framed as a philosophical dialogue between Fremtid (Future), a curious young man, and Visdom (Wisdom), an older woman schooled in the great thinkers, the conversation follows Fremtid’s search for answers that friends, teachers, and AI assistants cannot provide. As the dialogue unfolds, he discovers something more important than answers: his own capacity to think. The discussion ranges across life, death, and time; things, technology, and meaning; and faith, hope, and love.

By moving through past, present, and imagined future technologies, the book invites readers to think about whether — and why — we need technology at all in the circumstances we find ourselves in.

Read more here.