Andrea Venzon [English]

I don’t know if you feel it too: the world has become a place where you are expected to accept things as they are. Where power concentrates quietly, without asking permission. Where politics can’t keep up with the forces reshaping everything. Where the question of who controls the future is being answered - right now - by a handful of companies, without a vote, without debate, without accountability.

I’m not okay with this. And this publication exists precisely for that reason.

For years I’ve written about wages, housing, democratic sovereignty, and the abuse of power by states and markets. Those fights haven’t ended. But something new has entered the room, and it changes everything. AI is not a technology story. It is the next power story - and it is moving faster than any political movement has ever moved before. This publication is my attempt to confront it, with the same urgency, the same refusal of resignation, and the same conviction that people deserve to stay in charge of their own future.

Who I am and why I do this

My name is Andrea Venzon. For over eight years I have been engaged in political struggles across countries and continents: in the streets, inside international institutions, within movements, and in universities. I helped build a European political party represented in Strasbourg and a political international active in more than 130 countries.

I have fought for decent wages and housing, functional public services, the right to protest without repression, and freedom from economic coercion. I have exposed abuses and defended those without a voice. What I learned across a decade of this work is that the fight for dignity and accountability doesn’t stop at borders - and it doesn’t stop at the boundary between the physical world and the digital one. The question of who controls AI is the same question I’ve spent ten years fighting: who decides, who is accountable, who gets to say no.

What will happen here

Three things. First, making the stakes clear. AI is reshaping work, politics, warfare, and what it means to be human. Most writing about it is either too technical or too breathless. I’ll write about it as what it is: a political crisis requiring a political response. Second, building the argument. Human sovereignty over AI is not a reactionary position - it is the most necessary one. I’ll make that case with analysis, history, and concrete proposals, for anyone willing to think seriously about it. Third, preparing the ground. If this community grows, it becomes more than a publication. It becomes infrastructure for the next fight.

Nothing here will be imposed from above. Everything will emerge from what we build over time, together.

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