Riccardo Crosa
English edition · Culture Series
From the sociological imagination to human-AI coevolution. What happens when the agents we design begin to form a society of their own? This book traces the arc from C. Wright Mills’ sociological imagination to a present in which autonomous AI entities learn, decide, and interact, redrawing the boundaries between human and artificial.
The questions that drive the book are not about architecture or parameters, but about power, identity, and the social contracts we are forming, often without realising it, with non-human actors. What does labour mean when your colleague is an agent? What does trust mean when the intermediary has no body? What does governance look like when the governed include entities that operate at a different speed?
The analysis extends to the economic models that currently shape AI development, the oligopolistic concentration of computational resources, and the bureaucratic inertia of governments attempting to regulate a technology that evolves faster than legislation.
