🚨 New research drop! With Milly Stilinovic & Jonathon Hutchinson, we explore how AI is being creatively misused in experimental online spaces we call Underspheres — and why current regulation can’t keep up.
🗞️ The Conversation:
https://theconversation.com/ai-is-moving-fast-climate-policy-provides-valuable-lessons-for-how-to-keep-it-in-check-255624
đź“„ New Media & Society (Open Access):
https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251338511
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.
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.
Francesco Bailo