NEWS

02/06/2026

15:53

Tusk on Artificial Intelligence:

Forecasts Shouldn't Be So Alarmist.

Michał Olech

- We cannot settle for such helpless prophecies that artificial intelligence will take control of almost the world and all of us, that we will lose hundreds of thousands, millions of jobs, that this is already happening. The facts are not so pessimistic, and the forecasts should not be so alarmist, and in this sense, it somewhat resembles the beginning of the 19th century. There is no doubt that the development of modern technologies can and will pose challenges for individual industries, for the labor market, undoubtedly, and it can also pose a powerful challenge for the state, including Poland, for example, by making Poland dependent on global companies or the largest world powers in the digital market - stated Prime Minister Donald Tusk during the 16th European Financial Congress.

- But just as in the 19th century, I am convinced that also now, in the 21st century, forecasts have rarely come true and I don't think they will come true more often and more accurately now. Rather than forecasts and prophecies about what artificial intelligence will do to us, we should engage in actions that will restore, especially in the emotional dimension, that sense of control and the awareness that we should possess tools like AI, not AI possessing us - he continued.


Michał Olech