
The first sign is often banal: a meeting request with “AI strategy” in the title. By then, something has already happened. Someone in the organization has been using generative tools quietly for months. A manager has praised an AI-generated synthesis because it sounded clean enough to be true. A client has asked why the company…

The text is one of four speeches by Bartosz Frąckowiak introducing the subsequent discussion blocks during Signal Forum in Prague in 2024. Let us begin with a provocative hypothesis: while AI appears to be a breakthrough in modern technology and promises to stimulate transformations in many domains, it paradoxically reinforces existing power structures rather than…