One can write satirically about energy almost endlessly, but the topics are slowly starting to get repetitive. After all, how many times can you freeze the price of energy? Therefore, today, something from a different barrel – IT, is about trends that will change our world. 

Artificial intelligence (AI) passes (brilliantly) math exams….

Gen AI assists students, and they know best. Now, teachers and superintendents are slowly finding out. Recently, OpenAI did almost perfectly on the Korean SAT, considered one of the world’s most demanding high school exams. Thanks to the new versions of AI – students’ lives will become much easier and more pleasant – if AI is managed in Seoul, it will undoubtedly be managed in Warsaw. Encouraged by this, this year’s high school graduates (2025) – can already put their books on the shelves and focus on investing in miniature electronic gadgets – cameras, headphones, microcells – and practising techniques for quick scanning of high school graduation sheets. Then, all you have to do is upload the data to a licensed OpenAI and receive the finished answers (without the risk of being caught by the teachers supervising the exam). In view of this, it becomes crucial to grow long hair and the necessary wearing of microcamera glasses or deft use of new models of miniature smartwatches. The results of the Polish high school exams 2025 will undoubtedly be astonishingly high, but we can expect an actual “arms race” between students and school boards in the following years. For example, schools may introduce GSM signal jamming and Wi-Fi blocking in exam rooms. Students will respond by bringing their own AI servers equipped with the latest NVIDIA graphics cards, cleverly hidden in the inside pockets of their suits or under their navy blue skirts. In response to such innovations, schools may mandate compulsory “hedgehog” haircuts (for both boys and girls) to eliminate headphones and hidden chips. They may also require students to pass through an inspection in transparent underwear before entering the Hall – but then chips implanted under the skin will already be the norm – technologically, culturally and fashion-wise. In this race, I always bet on youth, which will not give traditions a chance, in the face of which the song “It’s already next year’s high school graduation”… becomes obsolete. Well, unless one gets caught using OpenAI. 

Opinions and followers for sale …

In the early days of the Internet, everything seemed straightforward and idealistic. The network was supposed to give unhindered access to information, accessible exploration of the world, acquisition of knowledge, exchange of experiences and rapid personal development. It came out as always: we have wasted hours watching cat videos and influencers on social media, and there is a rash of conspiracy theories and secondary illiteracy. People, with access to the knowledge of the whole world at their fingertips, choose to hide in the corner of the cottage and waste time on bullshit. We thought just as idealistically about being able to evaluate objectively – stores, restaurants, products and politicians. We also quickly learned how wrong we could be. Today, everything is up for grabs – from thousands of followers who can (artificially) admire our charms, songs or tunes (and thus find sponsors) to thousands or millions of positive reviews of a product or service (artificial bots, fake ratings and comments). Dozens of new companies offer “fame-on-demand” price tags – packages of followers of a thousand, ten thousand or even a million. Likes? You can buy millions of them. So the most shoddy product can have five stars, and a person who neither sings, dances, or speaks meaningfully can gain half a million fans. The power of buying artificial people, endorsement votes, and hate and hatred has, of course, been detected by politicians. Internet advertising in election campaigns is no longer just banners,but social media services that often balance on the edge of the law and usually even exceed it. Spreading false information (for profit), providing false statistics and data, creating fake profiles and comments, direct hate in the form of insulting people and even criminal threats – all these things that are the basis of “modern political marketing” or “advanced product positioning” are in the price tags and offers, and any services that are supposed to defend the public – do not see it at all. There are more primaries and elections ahead – so another toll begins, not to mention the standard activities of those who promote themselves online (and then sell their image in TV contests). Long live the free Internet from which we have made a tool of enslavement. 

Artificial intelligence (AI) can also cheat… and it’s great.

We’ve all become accustomed to “grandchild” scams. Now comes version 2.0 – using artificial intelligence. All it takes is a good voice sample, and sometimes even a short video, for AI tools to create the perfect avatar – with a realistic voice and image. Already at this moment (authentic!) – the “grandson” scam is a thing of the past. Today, the phone rings, and in the receiver, you can hear the authentic (almost – because authentically fake) voice of a husband who asks his wife to immediately pay hundreds of thousands of zlotys for bail because he just caused a car accident. In the background, “constable” and “investigator” are heard, and the sounds of closing bars and the bustle of the police station can be heard. The possibilities are now gigantic, the fakes are almost perfect, and the victim’s nervousness is genuine. It is necessary to change all security procedures – it should be assumed that simple voice or face recognition – no longer works. In my case, fortunately, when I wanted to establish with my wife that it is necessary to watch out for such types of fraud, my wife calmly replied that we are not threatened by it – after all, she will not pay a penny for me, no matter what I say – but probably not everyone is so secure. However, it is worth being aware that we are on the brink of a new wave of giant fraud attempts. Some security features in banks and financial institutions also need to be more beneficial, so what if you record your voice and confirm the transaction when everything is fake? More than dual authorization (order and phone) will be needed in a while. Still, triple or quadruple verification mechanisms will be necessary – and we may even return to personal visits to banks. Welcome to the new reality in which artificial intelligence is changing everything. The problem is that it’s only sometimes for the better.