Transformation: AI, Trust and, the New Middle Ages
By Tomasz Sanpruch
Length5h 31m
About this audiobook
Transformation explores a world in which artificial intelligence has moved beyond being a supportive tool and become a full executor of work, decisions, and communication. Written at the moment this shift becomes irreversible, the book examines how generative AI is reshaping labor, power, trust, and authorship faster than institutions can adapt.
The book itself reflects this change. Tomasz Sańpruch presents himself not as a traditional author, but as a prompter—initiating ideas while AI interprets and structures them. Drawing on economic data and real-world examples, Transformation challenges comforting assumptions about “new jobs,” showing how productivity gains fail to translate into stable employment and why societies may be drifting toward a new “Middle Ages” defined by concentrated power and scarce trust.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (2)
GenreBusiness and Economics
Length5 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 20, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
312.2.2. Geopolitics in the Age of SimulationWars Without Gunfire, Power Without Truth
2Methodological Note
322.3. The Renaissance of Face-to-Face Meetings
3Megatrend 1
332.4. Authenticity as a Competitive Advantage
41.1.2. Autonomous Decision-Making Systems
342.4.1. The Impact on Employer Branding
51.1.3. Scaling Compute Power and Falling Inference Costs: Economics as the “Hidden Engine” of Change
352.5.3. Anti-Deepfake PoliciesFrom Crisis Response to an Architecture of Resilience
Show all chaptersShow less
61.1.4. Why Human Control Is an Illusion
36Megatrend 3
71.2. The Dynamics of Automation: Pace, Forecasts, and Historical Comparisons
373.1. Polarisation of the Information Market
81.3. Why AI Creates Fewer Jobs Than Earlier Technologies
383.2. Trends: Trust, Newsletters, Subscriptions
91.3.1. The Social Consequences of the “Elevator Effect”: Inequality, Education, and Generational Frustration
393.3. Disinformation and Automated Content FactoriesWhen information overproduction becomes a political and economic risk
101.3.2. Frustration as Political Fuel: Populism, Institutional Delegitimation, and the New Power of Big Tech
403.5. The Future of the Journalistic Profession
111.4. Sectoral Analysis
41Megatrend 4
121.4.1. Marketing and Communication: A Pilot Sector for the Automation of Cognitive Work
424.1. The Concept of the “New Middle Ages”From Intellectual Metaphor to a Diagnosis of an Era (Eco, Bull, Harari, Maçães, Turchin)
131.4.1.1. Replacing Creators with AI
434.2. Feudalization 2.0
141.4.2. Public Administration: Automating the State and the Erosion of Responsibility
444.3. A Plurality of Truths and Parallel Realities
151.4.3. Finance and Banking: Algorithmic Exclusion, Scoring, and Credit as an Instrument of Power
454.5.1. Yuval Noah Harari: Power Over Narrative and Mind
161.4.4. Healthcare: Algorithmic Triage, Access to Treatment, and the Limits of Responsibility
464.5.2. Thomas Friedman: A World Too Fast for States
171.4.5. Education: Algorithmic Teaching, Talent Selection, and the Reproduction of Inequality
474.5.3. Bruno Maçães: The Fragmentation of Geopolitics into Parallel Worlds
181.4.6. IT and Software Engineering: The End of the Competency Monopoly and the Erosion of a “Privileged” Profession
484.5.4. Peter Turchin: Cyclical Crisis and Elite Overproduction
191.5. Case Study: Communication and Marketing
494.6. Implications for Firms and IndividualsReputation, the “Credibility Shield,” and Survival in a World of Fragmented Narratives
201.5.1. The Newsroom That Is No Longer a Newsroom
50Strategic Recommendations
211.5.2. The Renaissance of the “Walking Reporter”
515.1. For Entrepreneurs: From Scaling to Rootedness
221.5.3. The Wealthy Build Their Own Media: “Informational Courts of a New Middle Ages”
525.2. For Leaders and Managers
231.5.4. The Daily Battle for Human Attention
535.3. For Creative Professionals
241.5.5. The Paradox of the AI Age: The More Information We Have, the More We Want People
545.4. For Education and Public Administration
251.6. AI as a Structural Force, Not a Tool
555.5. For the Media
26Megatrend 2
565.6. For Government
272.1. The Crisis of Trust in the Age of Deepfakes and Generative AIWhen evidence stops being evidence
575.7. For Education and Higher Education
282.1.1. Political Deepfakes: From Manipulation to the Delegitimization of Democracy
58Conclusion
292.2. Gen Z and the Shift in Communication PreferencesData, not intuition: how a generation raised online responds to the crisis of trust
59References
302.2.1. Deepfakes, Elections, and Geopolitics: When the Crisis of Trust Becomes an Instrument of Power
More from Tomasz Sanpruch
O mundo em transformaçãoTomasz Sańpruch6h 35m$4.99 · $0.00
التحوّل الذكاء الاصطناعي والثقة والعصور الوسطى الجديدةTomasz Sanpruch5h 3m$14.99 · $0.00
2078: WARTomasz Sanpruch7h 3m$4.99 · $0.00
Transformación: IA, confianza y la nueva Edad MediaTomasz Sańpruch6h 29m$9.99 · $0.00
2078: THE BEGINNINGTomasz Sańpruch6h 38m$9.99 · $0.00
2078: Tom 2. WojnaTomasz Sanpruch6h 48m5 (3) Only with Ultra
"2078" Tom 1. PoczątekTomasz Sańpruch6h 23m5 (3) Only with Ultra
Świat w transformacji. AI, zaufanie i nowe średniowieczeTomasz Sanpruch, AI5h 43m4.8 (5)$0.00 · $0.00
Hal Moore on LeadershipHarold G. Moore, Mike Guardia5h 6m$17
Basic Economics, Fifth EditionThomas Sowell28h 6m$40
The Goals ProgramZig Ziglar4h 34m$20
The Stocks & ETF Compass: A Guide to Wealth, High Standard of Living, and Secure Retirement through Intelligent Investment in the Stock Market and Passive Income – Including Starter GuideJens Hattermann4h 9m$20 · $0.00
Eat It!Jordan Syatt, Michael Vacanti4h 40m$20 · $0.00
Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II (Annotated)Henry George20h 24m$2 · $0.00
Not Everything Counts but Everything Matters: The powerful and inspirational new book about leadership and achieving success from the visionary multi-premiership winning Panthers coachIvan Cleary6h 1m$24 · $0.00
Leads MachineFrancis Rodino6h 30m$27 · $0.00
CAPITAL (Complete 3 Volume Edition)Karl Marx111h 13m$2 · $0.00
BuildTony Fadell11h 5m$8 · $0.00
The Joys Of CompoundingGautam Baid17h 34m$18 · $0.00
The Entrepreneur Roller CoasterDarren Hardy7h 8m$17
The Law of Success in Sixteen LessonsNapoleon Hill1h 31m$2 · $0.00
Poor Charlie’s AlmanackGrover Gardener, Charles T. Munger13h 9m$18 · $0.00
The Ambuja StoryNarotam Sekhsaria13h 59m$33 · $0.00
Military Culture ShiftCorie Weathers13h 13m$25 · $0.00
This Is Going to HurtAdam Kay5h 47m$24 · $0.00
Saving Social CareNeil Eastwood4h 54m$18 · $0.00
Big TrustShadé Zahrai, Fayçal Sekkouah8h 36m$26 · $0.00
SocialismLudwig von Mises24h 8m$30
You may also like
System ErrorRob Reich, Mehran Sahami, Jeremy M. Weinstein11h 29m$29 · $0.00
Agenda 2030Dawid Snowden27m$4 · $0.00
Beyond the ValleyRamesh Srinivasan12h 34m$23 · $0.00
MuskismQuinn Slobodian, Ben Tarnoff5h 59m5 (1)$24 · $0.00
Think Like a HumanDavid Weitzner8h 36m$26 · $0.00
We Have Been HarmonizedKai Strittmatter10h 29m$29 · $0.00
The Artificial Intelligence ContagionDavid Barnhizer, Daniel Barnhizer12h$20
Code RedWynton Hall8h 21m$24 · $0.00
Ai Revolution And Its Unstoppable Global ImpactEveraldo Santos Silva1h 27m$7 · $0.00
When Machines Take Over (Annotated)Philip K. Dick7h$2 · $0.00
Machines of Loving GraceJohn Markoff11h 53m$29 · $0.00
Timotheus; or, the future of the theatreBonamy Dobrée56m$2 · $0.00
Graphic Films Collection - Metropolis – act 3G.B. Royer6m$11 · $0.00
Big DataViktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier9h 41m$29 · $0.00
Screen PeopleMegan Garber7h 40m$26 · $0.00
Technology vs. TruthScientific American4h 33m$15
Masters or Slaves?Jeremy Peckham6h 44m$23
BombardedCyrus Krohn, Tom Farmer7h 45m$30
War and AIJavier del Puerto, Rado Molina4h 39m$20 · $0.00
The Art Of Conjuring Alternate RealitiesShivam Shankar Singh, Anand Venkatanarayanan9h 50m$29 · $0.00