The future of labor in the age of artificial intelligence cannot be placed only in the hands of giant corporate corporations. This is the political and social message that emerged from the 19th COTEC Europe Symposium in Venice, which featured a direct conversation between the Republic's President, Sergio Mattarella, Spain's King Felipe VI, and Portugal's President, António José Seguro. The gathering was more than just a ceremony: the three national Cotec foundations signed a memorandum of understanding to safeguard workers' rights and guide the digital transition on the southern side of the European Union, in accordance with the principles of the rule of law. In his speech, President Mattarella vehemently rejected any isolationist temptation, describing cooperation among Italy, Spain, and Portugal as a "geometric necessity" to avoid passively surrendering to technical standards established in the US or Asia. The Head of State then issued a severe warning about digital democracy: "Today, 99% of the world's population is simply a passive user of new technologies. A trend that must be addressed immediately" in order to prevent new types of functional illiteracy and social isolation, particularly among younger generations. The presidential address was based on exact ethical underpinnings, citing Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas", to emphasize that algorithms must never reduce people to a marginal component of production. Finally, Mattarella cautioned the web titans, citing the medieval legal maxim "Quilibet in domo sua dicitur rex" (Everyone is sovereign in their own home), that technological advancement must cease at the boundaries of privacy and individual rights. Public institutions and state law have a responsibility to retain jurisdiction over common areas while safeguarding the combination of invention, work, and democracy that formed the twentieth century.