Pia Lauritzen questions our use of questions, the nature of humanity, the premise of AGI, the essence of tech, if humans can be optimized and why thinking is required. 

Pia and Kimberly discuss the function of questions, curiosity as a basic human feature, AI as an answer machine, why humans think, the contradiction at the heart of AGI, grappling with the three big Es, the fallacy of human optimization, respecting humanity, Heidegger’s eerily precise predictions, the skill of critical thinking, and why it’s not really about the questions at all. 

Pia Lauritzen, PhD is a philosopher, author and tech inventor asking big questions about tech and transformation. As the CEO and Founder of Qvest and a Thinkers50 Radar Member Pia is on a mission to democratize the power of questions. 

Related Resources

• Questions (Book): https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/23069/questions 
• TEDx Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/pia_lauritzen_what_you_don_t_know_about_questions 
• Question Jam: www.questionjam.com
• Forbes Column: forbes.com/sites/pialauritzen 
• LinkedIn Learning: www.Linkedin.com/learning/pialauritzen 
• Personal Website: pialauritzen.dk 

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