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Fabian Ferrari

@fabianlferrari.bsky.social
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🌍 Assistant Professor in Cultural AI, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social 🔍 Governance of AI Infrastructure 🌐 www.fabianlferrari.com

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Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Join us tomorrow for a lecture by @linadencik.bsky.social! "The tenant state poses risks to the welfare state that may be distinct from neoliberalism and privatisation that dominated welfare discussions in the post, and may therefore require different responses." cdh.uu.nl/event/lectur...
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Lecture: From welfare to tenant state? State-tech relations in an age of AI | Centre for Digital Humanities
In this talk, Lina Dencik, professor in AI Justice at Goldsmiths, University of London, explores how we can make sense of state-tech relations in an age of platformisation and AI. While much has been ...
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Joanne Kuai @joannekuai.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New special issue out! 🚀 Co-edited by me & fabianlferrari.bsky.social, on generative AI governance, now published in *Information, Communication & Society*. 🔗 Open access intro: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Generative AI governance: from regulatory design to institutional reordering
This special issue approaches generative AI governance as a multi-sited and contested process. Across diverse contexts, the contributions reveal governance as distributed across institutions, geogr...
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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... What's up with AI and energy? In this article we explore the growing hunger of AI for energy and the growing intertwining of the energy industry and the AI infrastructure investment through power purchase agreements, especially for nuclear power
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Nuclear clouds: the infrastructural convergence of AI and energy systems
This short commentary maps the convergence of industrial AI infrastructures and national energy systems, with a focus on the role that nuclear power plays in these ambitions. Drawing from examples ...
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Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
What if “sovereignty” does not capture how power works in AI value chains? Join us in Berlin for "Sovereignty Exhaustion: New Vocabularies for the Geopolitics of Global AI Value Chains", co-organized with @schneiss.bsky.social and @grohmannrafael.bsky.social. More here: tinyurl.com/y4d7e7xy
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I'm pleased to share my contribution to @politicalgeography.bsky.social's AI forum: "The Latent Subject: AI, Recognition, and the Politics of Latent Space": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
So happy to have @profgillian.bsky.social (alongside other great speakers) joining this workshop on ‘Techno-geographies of AI’ in Milan on Friday 27 March. Co-organised with @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and Darío Negueruela del Castillo. @fabianlferrari.bsky.social
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I gave a short talk at Cornell yesterday on my science-of-science work investigating how AI is being used by researchers and how we should go about crafting policies in response. Blanket policies are hard, privacy is important, we need more measurement. Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/1gNTK...
In early 2024, researchers were already heavily using AI for work
- Survey of 816 verified authors via Semantic Scholar
- 81% of researchers reported using LLMs in their workflow
- Top uses: information seeking & editing
- Rare for data tasks: 6973% never use LLMs for data cleaning or generationThe measurement problem
LLM content has risen sharply in both review and non-review papers.
Review papers do have a higher prevalence rate.
But non-review LLM papers outnumber review papers 6x.
CS.CY Computers & Society) faces potential 50% cuts compared to CS.CV (Computer Vision) would only face 3%Interdisciplinary researchers — who move between cultures and write in the “borderlandsˮ — are experts at adapting their writing. LLMs currently are not.Private information can appear in unlikely prompts
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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
New paper! In @icsjournal.bsky.social I argue that governing #AI means “scale work” — the labour of stabilizing AI *across* relationships that are usually tackled in isolation. I use journalism’s GenAI encounters as a case study, connecting siloed AI collisions www.tandfonline.com/eprint/T7WWF...
Abstract of article:

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Governing Artificial Intelligence (Al) is difficult, in part, because Al systems never stand still in any one place. They are usually made by private companies, hidden within proprietary infrastructures, spanning jurisdictions, behaving in ways that are difficult to predict, and talked about in messy discourses of hype and panic. I suggest here that all this dynamism and uncertainty could be tackled by understanding Al and its governance as multi-scalar phenomena. Drawing on DiCaglio's idea of a
'scalar view,' defining Al as a scalar media technology, and tracing journalism's encounters with Generative Al as scalar collisions - across
practices, organizations, data, audiences, and engineering - I argue that Al governance is
'scale work', and that multi-scalar governance offers new ways to understand Generative Al and its stakes.”
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Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Join us online this Thursday!
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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Very glad to take part on "Humanities in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil" seminar series organised by @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and @fabianlferrari.bsky.social. 📆 Follow the thing AI: 20/11/2025: 15:30 - 16:30 @oii.ox.ac.uk cdh.uu.nl/event/cdh-on...
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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Happy to be part of this amazing speaker series organized by Utrecht University, especially @fabianlferrari.bsky.social . I'll talk about Latin American Critical AI studies. I'll be in such great company with @nsrnicek.bsky.social and @anavaldi.bsky.social cdh.uu.nl/event/cdh-on...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 09/06/2025
China shuts down AI tools during nationwide college exams
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China shuts down AI tools during nationwide college exams
New age problems require new age solutions.
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Philip Napoli @pmnapoli.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Have a new piece on social media's lessons for the governance of generative AI in Information, Communication, and Society, co-authored with Suher Adi. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MBACG...
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On moving fast and breaking things . . . again: social media’s lessons for generative AI governance
Generative AI systems are increasingly being employed globally, bringing with them both tremendous promise and substantial potential for harm. As is often the case, governance initiatives are laggi...
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 05/06/2025
Probably the most surprising thing about this confrontation is that it took more than 180 days to happen
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Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"In Silicon Valley, some investors ask whether the AI infrastructure boom will become what fibre optic cables were to the dotcom era." www.ft.com/content/0e24...
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The emerging reality of the OpenAI-SoftBank grand plan for data centres
The financing and future of the Stargate project hailed by Trump are far from straightforward
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Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Who decides what counts as theft when AI copies your style? Check out the first paper of our special issue on generative AI governance co-edited with @joannekuai.bsky.social!
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dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The US cloud is not inevitable www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Dutch parliament calls for end to reliance on US software
The Netherlands' parliament on Tuesday approved a series of motions calling on the government to reduce dependence on U.S. software companies, including by creating a cloud services platform that is under Dutch control.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19/03/2025
Elon Musk’s DOGE is tearing through the US government with disastrous consequences. But beyond its borders, the extreme right is gearing up to push their own DOGE-inspired austerity campaigns in countries around the world.
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DOGE is going global. It needs to be stopped.
The extreme right is organizing for a new austerity campaign modeled on Elon Musk’s destructive efforts
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Niels van Doorn @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It’s great to see this piece published in Platforms & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... It nicely brings critical platform scholarship into conversation with the lit. on state capitalism and techno-colonialism, through a rich case study set in post-pandemic Greece.
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Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
A narrow regulatory focus on misinformation distracts from addressing structural problems in the AI industry. My chapter in the FEPS Progressive Yearbook 2024. bit.ly/ai-infrastru...
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Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Together with Joanne Kuai, I'm editing a special issue on generative AI governance in Information, Communication & Society. Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2024 Details: bit.ly/generative-a...
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Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Our new paper in New Media & Society: "Observe, inspect, modify: Three conditions for generative AI governance" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
At least 16 countries have already experimented with using generative AI to mislead their citizens: www.platformer.news/p/how-author...
In the meantime, over the past year Freedom House that at least 16 countries used generative AI to create content intended to mislead the public. The earliest tools were available only in English, limiting their usage around the world. At the same time, Freedom House notes that investigators in this realm have the same problem the Slovakian fact-checkers did: tools for assessing the authenticity of content posted online are limited and often inaccurate. They believe it is likely that the true number of countries experimenting with synthetic media is likely higher than 16.
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
This is a REALLY BIG DEAL for ethical AI! And REALLY HARD TO EXPLAIN. Especially in a skeet. 1 - WATERMARKING FOR GEN AI! 2 - EMBEDDED "NUTRITION LABELS" IN GEN AI (does that tl;dr work?) www.globenewswire.com/news-release... 🧵
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Truepic and Hugging Face Partner to Highlight the Latest Innovations in Transparency to AI-Generated...
Truepic brings two new spaces to Hugging Face, the first making C2PA Content Credentials available for developer use and the second an experimental space...
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