AI in Business: From Augmentation to Autonomy | Virtual Lecture

AI in Business: From Augmentation to Autonomy

How AI is reshaping work, organizations, and competitive advantage

Lecturer: Levente Szabados, PhD

This virtual teaser lecture introduces MBA participants to the managerial implications of the next wave of AI adoption. Rather than focusing on individual tools, the session develops a practical framework for understanding three increasingly consequential modes of AI in business: augmented, automated, and autonomous intelligence.

Participants will explore

• From augmentation to autonomy: How AI evolves from supporting individual decisions to automating business processes and ultimately executing complex objectives with increasing independence.
• AI in action: Concrete business cases and a live demonstration showing how AI systems can combine information, reasoning, tools, and workflows to perform real organizational tasks.
• The economics of AI-enabled work: How automation and autonomy affect productivity, coordination costs, specialization, and the allocation of work between people and machines.
• Designing the AI-enabled organization: What AI means for processes, roles, team structures, managerial control, and the accumulation of organizational know-how.
• From efficiency to reinvention: Where AI primarily optimizes existing operations, and where it enables new products, operating models, and business models.
• The management challenge: How leaders should decide what to augment, what to automate, what to delegate to autonomous systems, and where human judgment remains essential.

The lecture combines technological insights with a strong managerial perspective and is designed for anyone curious about AI; no technical background required.

Agenda
03:30 p.m. | Welcome and short introduction
03:35 p.m. | Lecture and demonstration
04:50 p.m. | Q&A
ca. 05:00 p.m. | End

Your participation is non-binding and free of charge. Please register for the event via our online registration platform top right. The event language is English.

We look forward to meeting with you!