Essay series · IT / EN-US

Understanding AI.

Insights into Artificial Intelligence is an editorial series for readers who want to truly understand AI, beyond slogans and oversimplifications. Each volume offers clear, well-documented analysis of how algorithms, data, and generative models are transforming work, education, the economy, communication, and individual freedom.

Written in an accessible yet rigorous style, the series connects technology with its human impact: ethics, platform power, new inequalities, security, privacy, creativity, governance, and the future of digital society. These books are designed for curious readers, professionals, educators, and decision-makers looking for tools to navigate change, assess risks and opportunities, and build awareness.

If you want to understand Artificial Intelligence as a cultural, social, and economic phenomenon of our time, this series is your essential reference point.

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Independent yet connected journeys: filter by subject or language and choose the question you want to begin with.

Cover: The Age of the Algorithm
Work & society EN-US

The Age of the Algorithm

A critical map of work in the AI economy: automation, inequality, welfare and universal basic income.

Cover: AI at School
Education EN-US

AI at School

A guide to understanding and governing AI in the classroom, from personalized learning and inclusion to new educational responsibilities.

Cover: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
Power & society EN-US

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity

An accessible reflection on AI’s possibilities and the limits needed to protect freedom, responsibility and human dignity.

Cover: Machines That Think, Men Who Believe
Consciousness & spirituality EN-US

Machines That Think, Men Who Believe

Artificial thought confronts the mystery of consciousness in a dialogue among scientism, faith, freedom and transcendence.

Cover: Algorithms of Desire
Power & society EN-US

Algorithms of Desire

Algorithms of Desire by Pasquale Ruggiero explores how AI shapes consumption, digital identity and human freedom through predictive advertising and persuasion.

Cover: Science & Consciousness
Consciousness & spirituality EN-US

Science & Consciousness

An invitation to heal the divide between scientific knowledge and inner life, imagining a civilization both advanced and deeply aware.

The Algorithmic Paycheck — Pasquale Ruggiero
Explore AI, labor policy, technological unemployment and universal basic income.

Science, inner life and human awareness

Science & Consciousness

How can scientific progress remain connected to human awareness? Pasquale Ruggiero’s Science & Consciousness explores a dialogue between science and spirituality, with attention to consciousness, inner life and responsibility.

The conclusions present the Theory of Ontological Resonance as part of this philosophical inquiry.

Pasquale Ruggiero in his study, working at his computer

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Pasquale Ruggiero

Technology transforms the world; consciousness decides what kind of world to build.

Pasquale Ruggiero, a contemporary essayist and author, has for years focused on the critical analysis of the technological, cultural, and social transformations associated with the development of Artificial Intelligence and algorithmic systems. His research and writing lie at the intersection of philosophical inquiry, socioeconomic analysis, and public ethics, with particular attention to their effects on work, education, individual freedom, and human identity in the digital society.

Bibliographic note: some earlier English-language editions and bibliographic records list the publishing name Patt Rogger, previously used by Pasquale Ruggiero.

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“The future will not be decided by algorithms, but by the values we use to guide them.”

Desire, identity and freedom

How do personalized messages influence what we want? In Algorithms of Desire — Pasquale Ruggiero, predictive advertising and digital identity become starting points for understanding human freedom in the attention economy.