IRL: Online Life is Real Life Watching the Watchers
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Dec 18, 2025 
Simona Levi, a pioneering theater director and digital rights activist, and Airi Dordas, a creative designer and social innovator, dive into the potential of AI for social accountability. They discuss the concept of inverse surveillance, flipping the power dynamic to hold authorities accountable. Leveraging AI tools like Skeptic Reader, they explore ways to promote critical thinking and citizen monitoring. With tactics like community action and low-tech activism, they emphasize the importance of resilience and decentralized platforms to foster civic engagement.
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Flip The Gaze To Hold Power Accountable
- Inverse surveillance flips the gaze from citizens to power and uses tech, art, and data to hold institutions accountable.
- It reframes surveillance tools as shields for communities rather than weapons for control.
Teach Simple Tools To Empower People
- Empower communities with simple, teachable internet tricks like Tor and crowdfunding to enable transparency actions.
- Teach practical, low-tech but effective tools so anyone can participate in accountability campaigns.
Bank Scandal Exposed By Xnet
- Xnet exposed a bank scandal and published documents that led to convictions of bankers and politicians.
- Simona Levi called the campaign a peaceful guerrilla movement that combined community organizing with technology.