Presenting World Federal Constitutionalism and Technologies of Power in the Quantum Era
At the Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino, Professor Gabriele Pao-Pei Andreoli presented his latest book, World Federal Constitutionalism and Technologies of Power in the Quantum Era, co-authored with Professor Alberto Contu.
The presentation became far more than a discussion about technology. It evolved into a profound reflection on the future of humanity in an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, predictive systems, quantum computing, and global interconnection.
The central question raised during the event was both philosophical and urgent:
Is humanity evolving at the same speed as the tools it is creating?
The book explores the transformation of power across historical eras — from the industrial age, where power belonged to those controlling matter, to the digital age, where power shifted to those controlling data. Today, according to the authors, humanity is entering what they define as the Quantum Era: a civilization in which power increasingly belongs to those capable of predicting, influencing, and shaping reality itself.
Yet the presentation stressed that the true challenge of this transition is not technological, but ethical and human.
Artificial intelligence and predictive technologies are advancing at extraordinary speed, but without safeguards, ethical frameworks, and a renewed sense of responsibility, technological acceleration risks generating unprecedented forms of manipulation and control.
Professor Andreoli emphasized that this is not a book against technology. Rather, it is a call for consciousness, wisdom, and human dignity to evolve together with innovation.
The presentation also highlighted the necessity of developing new constitutional, ethical, and international frameworks capable of accompanying technological transformation while preserving freedom, peace, cooperation, and the intrinsic value of the human being.
Participants and media representatives from ALLATRA Italia attended the presentation and conducted interviews focused on the ethical implications of emerging technologies and the future of humanity in a rapidly changing world.
The event at the Turin International Book Fair represented another important step in an ongoing international dialogue promoted through the work of the Institute for Advanced Studies and Cooperation (IASC) and IASC World Changers, dedicated to fostering ethical innovation, scientific diplomacy, interdisciplinary cooperation, and human-centered technological progress.
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Speech by Professor Gabriele Pao-Pei Andreoli
Turin International Book Fair 2026
Ladies and Gentlemen,
friends,
we are living in an extraordinary age.
For the first time in human history, we have built systems capable not only of processing information, but of perceiving patterns, integrating themselves into everyday life, predicting behaviors, anticipating decisions, and influencing entire societies.
We have created artificial intelligences capable of learning.
Soon, we will have quantum systems capable of radically transforming the way we understand reality, security, economics, medicine, and even politics itself.
And yet, while technology accelerates, one question remains suspended above us:
Is humanity evolving at the same speed as its tools?
Because the real problem is not whether machines will become intelligent.
The real problem is whether humanity will remain wise.
I often hear people say that human beings must remain at the center of technological systems, in control and responsible for them. But the true question is:
What kind of human being?
That is the real core of the issue.
We define this period as the Quantum Era not only because of quantum computing.
We define it this way because today everything is interconnected, entangled: economy, information, biology, geopolitics, and human consciousness itself.
In the industrial age, power belonged to those who controlled matter.
In the digital age, power belonged to those who controlled data.
In the Quantum Era, power will belong to those capable of predicting, orienting, and shaping reality itself.
And this is where the great challenge of our time begins.
Every great concentration of power throughout history has required safeguards.
Kings required constitutions.
States required democracies.
Atomic energy required international treaties.
Today, artificial intelligence and predictive technologies require something even deeper:
a new ethical architecture of civilization.
Because a constitution without safeguards is only poetry.
A democracy without conscience risks becoming manipulation.
And technology without ethics can become the most sophisticated instrument of control ever created.
This book was born from a simple yet fundamental reflection:
We cannot delegate the future of humanity to systems we ourselves do not fully understand.
And let me be clear: this is not a book against technology.
It is a book against technology without conscience.
It is not a book against artificial intelligence.
It is a book against the idea that human dignity can be subordinated to the automation of power.
We need safeguards.
We need a new form of constitutionalism capable of evolving together with technology without losing what makes us human.
Because today no nation can face global challenges alone.
Technologies know no borders.
Algorithms know no sovereignty.
Climate, economic, and informational crises move across the planet in real time.
And so the real question becomes:
Will we be capable of transforming interconnection into cooperation?
Will we transform fear into shared responsibility?
Will we build a future where progress also means dignity, peace, consciousness, and harmony?
I believe we can.
I believe this era is asking something profound from us:
not only to become more advanced, but to become more mature.
Once, humanity crossed unknown oceans guided by the stars. Today we are crossing another ocean — invisible, algorithmic, and quantum. But the greatest danger is not artificial intelligence. The greatest danger is losing our humanity while creating it.
And perhaps the true revolution of the Quantum Era will not be technological. It will be human. It will be the rediscovery of consciousness, responsibility, cooperation, peace, and harmony as the true infrastructures of the future. Because the future will not simply belong to those who develop the most powerful technologies.
It will belong to those who have the courage to place the human being, dignity, and conscience at the center of progress.
Thank you.