Thomas Masurel – Persévérances

Keeping the Human in the Middle

I just read Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence and, more broadly, on the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, with two…

Thomas Masurel27 octobre 2026

Art and Culture Headship Transmission

A childhood at scale: who decided kids were the perfect AI testbed?

There is a quiet shift happening in front of us, and it is bigger than “screen time”.For years, social platforms have trained recommendation engines on…

Thomas Masurel13 mai 2026

Contemplations

Regulation as Code: Turning EU constraints into execution advantage

Some mornings in Normandy, when the fog sits low over the fields and the horizon disappears, I’m reminded of a simple truth: you don’t move…

Thomas Masurel25 février 2026

Headship

Compute Is the New Supply Chain

For years, we told ourselves a comforting story. Compute was elastic. Storage was infinite. Bandwidth was “someone else’s problem”. If you needed more, you clicked,…

Thomas Masurel20 février 2026

Transformations

RAG is the new spreadsheet: why most “Enterprise GenAI” will be mediocre

RAG is having its spreadsheet moment. Not in the sense of “it’s revolutionary”, because spreadsheets were never revolutionary in a shiny way. They were revolutionary…

Thomas Masurel17 février 2026

Transformations

The Agent Factory: from cute demos to industrial-scale AI agents

The first agent demo is always charming. Someone shows you a bot that drafts a reply, summarizes a meeting, or pulls an answer from a…

Thomas Masurel13 février 2026

Cynical Corner

Connect the bloodstream to the brain

Let’s stop separating AI, GenAI, and data. Looking around, I see the same scene replayed. In one corner, a “GenAI” team talking prompts, copilots, and…

Thomas Masurel4 février 2026

Transformations

As planned…

I remember the morning Accenture said it would cut 19.000 roles. Most people saw cost control. I saw a timestamp. When demand has already moved…

Thomas Masurel30 janvier 2026

Headship Transformations

Le paradoxe du leadership humain à l’ère digitale

Ces dernières années, j'ai souvent remarqué une étrange contradiction au cœur même de mon métier de CIO : plus les technologies que nous mettons en…

Thomas Masurel9 janvier 2026

Art and Culture Contemplations

Dare digital detox !

January is traditionally a month where we reset, cleanse, and reorient ourselves physically, mentally, and even sometimes spiritually. You've probably heard of "Dry January" or…

Thomas Masurel6 janvier 2026