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 and M.Sc. 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!