{"product_id":"2041-the-artificial-society-how-ai-agents-are-redrawing-power-business-and-europes-place-in-the-world-paperback","title":"2041. The Artificial Society: How AI Agents Are Redrawing Power, Business, and Europe's Place in the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEnrique Cantero Díaz\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eLuis Sotillos Sanz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo decades from now, who will actually be making the decisions that run your business, your government, and your economy?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAgentic artificial intelligence has already answered part of that question. Autonomous AI agents allocate capital, screen job candidates, set prices, and negotiate contracts, right now, at scale. What's changing is not the technology. It's who holds power once the technology is doing the deciding. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMost books on this shift come out of Washington or Beijing.\u003c\/b\u003e This one doesn't. Europe regulates artificial intelligence more aggressively than any other region on earth, yet builds almost none of the infrastructure it regulates. That contradiction turns the continent into the sharpest available case study for a question every economy will eventually face: what happens when the entities making decisions answer to someone else's rules. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEconomist and consultant Luis Sotillos Sanz has spent two decades inside companies navigating digital transformation. In \u003ci\u003e2041. The Artificial Society\u003c\/i\u003e, he draws on that experience, the enforcement record of the EU AI Act, and empirical evidence on how agentic AI is deployed today to build a working framework for an economy already underway. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside, you'll find: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow autonomous AI agents are emerging as a new category of economic actor, distinct from software, from employees, from firms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy the line between natural persons, legal persons, and agentic persons is blurring, and what that means for accountability\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow decision-making authority is being redistributed inside businesses and governments, often invisibly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour scenario-based, foresight-driven futures for Europe by 2041, from a continent that sets the platform others build on to one that merely executes decisions made elsewhere\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat \"metacontrol\", supervising systems rather than people, actually requires in practice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eThe four scenarios mapped here aren't predictions. They're a diagnostic tool. Which one is most likely is left for you to work out as you read, because the reasoning matters more than the answer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is not a book about Europe for European readers.\u003c\/b\u003e It's a book about what happens to any economy that regulates a powerful technology without controlling the infrastructure behind it, a dilemma the United States and China have mostly avoided by building that infrastructure themselves. Europe is simply the most advanced case of the alternative path. If you run a business, shape policy, or want to understand where decision-making authority is headed once agentic AI is fully embedded, in Brussels, in Washington, or in Shenzhen, you'll recognize your own stakes in these pages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA practical framework for navigating an economy where the old rules no longer fully apply.\u003c\/b\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 09, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67894693068952,"sku":"9788409892471","price":36.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/8ehRPJthkL9788409892471.webp?v=1793807484","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobookstore.com\/products\/2041-the-artificial-society-how-ai-agents-are-redrawing-power-business-and-europes-place-in-the-world-paperback","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}