This Observatory is an independent analytical and editorial project hosted within the QUI MILANO newspaper. It publishes structured articles on artificial intelligence as a systemic factor shaping economic structures, institutional frameworks, and governance models. The work is not conceived as commentary on daily news, but as long-term analysis focused on trajectories, mechanisms, and institutional consequences.
AI Research Framework
Capitalism, value and production systems
Collects contributions that analyze AI as an economic infrastructure that transforms production, productivity, and the organization of the firm, reshaping markets and value chains. The focus is on value-creation mechanisms, business models, and long-term macroeconomic dynamics across industrial and digital contexts.
States, institutions and democratic governance
Collects in-depth studies on States and institutions, where AI reshapes public power, regulation, and decision-making processes, between private infrastructures and democratic legitimacy. It includes analyses of language and cognition as infrastructures of government, epistemic authority, and symbolic control in public policy and in public and administrative services.
Global labor, skills and social transformation
Collects studies that examine the impact of AI on global labor, on the distribution of skills, and on the economic and social value of employment. The articles address automation, algorithmic control, polarization, income and welfare, and the effects on identity and inclusion in today’s high-cognitive-intensity sectors.
The geopolitics and geoeconomics of AI
Collects analyses of the geopolitical and geoeconomic dimension of AI, centered on chips, energy, data, data centers, and critical raw materials. The articles analyze supply chains, strategic dependencies, export controls, and technological sovereignty, assessing the balance among States and blocs within the framework of global technological competition.
Recent Contributions
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The Strategic Materiality of Artificial Intelligence
Categoria: The geopolitics and geoeconomics of AIAdvanced artificial intelligence can no longer be interpreted as an immaterial technology located solely in the domain of software, models, and cognitive interfaces. Its economic trajectory reveals a deeper structure: AI is a form of computational power rooted in physical infrastructures, industrial supply chains, energy networks, mining capacities, logistical systems, and political jurisdictions. Its apparent…
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Computational Capital and the New Coordinating Function of the Market
Categoria: Capitalism, value and production systemsAdvanced artificial intelligence does not intervene in capitalism merely as a technology of automation, but as an infrastructure of coordination. Its significance is not measured solely by the replacement of tasks, the productivity of individual processes, or the compression of operating costs. The most relevant point concerns the transformation of the way in which the…