Lode Lauwaert is Professor of Philosophy of Technology at KU Leuven (Belgium), where he holds the Ethics and AI Chair. He is co-author of We, Robots: Questioning the Neutrality of Technology, Ethical AI and Technological Determinism (Springer, 2025) and co-author of the forthcoming The AI Endgame (Wiley, 2026). His recent papers address AI existential risk, sustainability, automated propaganda, and online consent.
Lode Lauwaert
Speaker
Beyond the Human Touch: Why AI is Essential for a Positive Future
Speech
We often celebrate human intuition as a (moral) compass. But our intuitions are evolutionary hacks: tribal, short-sighted and blind to scale. Therefore, if we want to build genuinely flourishing futures, we must systematically correct our cognitive limitations rather than romanticize them. This keynote argues that AI can serve as a prosthesis for (moral) reasoning: not replacing our values, but helping us apply them consistently where intuition fails.