Krzysztof Gawkowski
Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs since December 2023.
Gawkowski, Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Digital Affairs Minister since December 2023, met robot-protest organisers outside his Warsaw ministry on 7 September 2026, when campaign group Democratism walked roughly 30 robots to the Building.
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Background
Gawkowski is Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs, in post since December 2023, with responsibility for the government's digital and technology policy.
On 7 September 2026, campaign group Democratism brought around 30 robots to the Ministry of Digital Affairs in Warsaw, and Gawkowski came out of the Building to meet the organisers in person, a direct engagement with an advocacy campaign rather than a written response. Democratism's own figures, that 30% of Polish professions are threatened and a million jobs face displacement, are the group's own estimates, sourced to nobody else; meeting the organisers is not an endorsement of those numbers.
For a minister overseeing digital policy, appearing in person at a protest outside his own ministry signals that AI-driven job displacement has become a live political question in Poland, whatever the eventual merit of any one campaign's figures.
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