Artificial intelligence is no longer merely a technology. It is the threshold of a transformation that affects labour, value, truth, autonomy, and power. In this historical passage, even the return of universal income should not be read as a simple social proposal, but as the symptom of a deeper fracture: that between a system that continues to produce wealth and a human order that can no longer be grounded solely in the centrality of labour.
This book moves through the decisive nodes of this transformation: the crisis of wages, cognitive substitution, the capture of attention, synthetic reality, democratic fragility, the new power of digital infrastructures. In dialogue with the theoretical framework of the Unified Theory of Super-Substitutability, it develops an increasingly unavoidable question: what idea of the human being, of society, and of civilization can still orient the world that is taking shape?
