francescobailo.bsky.social
I am a Lecturer in Data Analytics in the Social Sciences at the University of Sydney where I am also deputy director of Centre for AI, Trust and Governance. francescobailo.net
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They surely appreciate where their communication power truly lies
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Also acknowledging scholarship that informed our approach to AI governance: @jeah.bsky.social, @ckatzenbach.bsky.social & Kirsten Gollatz as well as @fabianlferrari.bsky.social, José van Dijck & Antal van den Bosch on observability, inspectability, and modifiability in GenAI systems
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This work builds on the foundational thinking of Axel Bruns @snurb.info, Zizi Papacharissi @zizip.bsky.social, danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social, and Crystal Abidin.
Their work on produsage, networked and refracted publics, and digital culture shaped how we conceptualised the Undersphere.
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We argue AI governance should learn from climate policy:
– Embrace complexity & uncertainty
– Prepare for unintended uses
– Enable fast, flexible responses
Because waiting for harms to go mainstream — like we did with deepfakes — is a mistake we can't afford to repeat.
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What are Underspheres?
They’re creative, decentralised spaces (think r/StableDiffusion) where AI tools get remixed, repurposed — and sometimes misused.
They’re not driven by ideology, but their outputs (like deepfake porn) pose real threats to privacy, safety & democratic trust.
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We always get this picture. And it is usually always from the Bondi Beach polling station (www.npr.org/2025/05/02/g...).
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🖇️ Open access paper here: doi.org/10.1080/1933...
🖇️ A short blog post summarising the paper is here:
francescobailo.net/C9MGY8YR/
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✅ Meetup groups first grew in civic hubs.
✅ After media spotlight, meetups exploded into low-social capital areas.
✅ Result: more political talk + M5S votes among previously disengaged.
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Mirrors come and go. Maybe not? Anyway, shameful how the corporations most responsible for fencing content and relationships on the Internet are building their tech with total disregard for the very rules they enforce on everybody else
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Worst aspect is of course the pineapple slice
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It’s an anti-bubble