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
1Title
312.2.1. Deepfakes, Elections, and Geopolitics: When the Crisis of Trust Becomes an Instrument of Power
2Introduction
322.2.2. Geopolitics in the Age of SimulationWars Without Gunfire, Power Without Truth
3Methodological Note
332.3. The Renaissance of Face-to-Face Meetings
4Megatrend 1
342.4. Authenticity as a Competitive Advantage
51.1.2. Autonomous Decision-Making Systems
352.4.1. The Impact on Employer Branding
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61.1.3. Scaling Compute Power and Falling Inference Costs: Economics as the “Hidden Engine” of Change
362.5.3. Anti-Deepfake PoliciesFrom Crisis Response to an Architecture of Resilience
71.1.4. Why Human Control Is an Illusion
37Megatrend 3
81.2. The Dynamics of Automation: Pace, Forecasts, and Historical Comparisons
383.1. Polarisation of the Information Market
91.3. Why AI Creates Fewer Jobs Than Earlier Technologies
393.2. Trends: Trust, Newsletters, Subscriptions
101.3.1. The Social Consequences of the “Elevator Effect”: Inequality, Education, and Generational Frustration
403.3. Disinformation and Automated Content FactoriesWhen information overproduction becomes a political and economic risk
111.3.2. Frustration as Political Fuel: Populism, Institutional Delegitimation, and the New Power of Big Tech
413.5. The Future of the Journalistic Profession
121.4. Sectoral Analysis
42Megatrend 4
131.4.1. Marketing and Communication: A Pilot Sector for the Automation of Cognitive Work
434.1. The Concept of the “New Middle Ages”From Intellectual Metaphor to a Diagnosis of an Era (Eco, Bull, Harari, Maçães, Turchin)
141.4.1.1. Replacing Creators with AI
444.2. Feudalization 2.0
151.4.2. Public Administration: Automating the State and the Erosion of Responsibility
454.3. A Plurality of Truths and Parallel Realities
161.4.3. Finance and Banking: Algorithmic Exclusion, Scoring, and Credit as an Instrument of Power
464.5.1. Yuval Noah Harari: Power Over Narrative and Mind
171.4.4. Healthcare: Algorithmic Triage, Access to Treatment, and the Limits of Responsibility
474.5.2. Thomas Friedman: A World Too Fast for States
181.4.5. Education: Algorithmic Teaching, Talent Selection, and the Reproduction of Inequality
484.5.3. Bruno Maçães: The Fragmentation of Geopolitics into Parallel Worlds
191.4.6. IT and Software Engineering: The End of the Competency Monopoly and the Erosion of a “Privileged” Profession
494.5.4. Peter Turchin: Cyclical Crisis and Elite Overproduction
201.5. Case Study: Communication and Marketing
504.6. Implications for Firms and IndividualsReputation, the “Credibility Shield,” and Survival in a World of Fragmented Narratives
211.5.1. The Newsroom That Is No Longer a Newsroom
51Strategic Recommendations
221.5.2. The Renaissance of the “Walking Reporter”
525.1. For Entrepreneurs: From Scaling to Rootedness
231.5.3. The Wealthy Build Their Own Media: “Informational Courts of a New Middle Ages”
535.2. For Leaders and Managers
241.5.4. The Daily Battle for Human Attention
545.3. For Creative Professionals
251.5.5. The Paradox of the AI Age: The More Information We Have, the More We Want People
555.4. For Education and Public Administration
261.6. AI as a Structural Force, Not a Tool
565.5. For the Media
27Megatrend 2
575.6. For Government
282.1. The Crisis of Trust in the Age of Deepfakes and Generative AIWhen evidence stops being evidence
585.7. For Education and Higher Education
292.1.1. Political Deepfakes: From Manipulation to the Delegitimization of Democracy
59Conclusion
302.2. Gen Z and the Shift in Communication PreferencesData, not intuition: how a generation raised online responds to the crisis of trust
60References
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