January 30th (Online) / February 8th (Paris) 2025
An independent symposium ****taking place online and person organised to coincide with the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) as a space to present research and case studies on the state of the art in participatory development and governance of AI, and to build stronger connections across the field.
<aside> 🗓️ Deadline for submissions - 8th December* [Read call / Submit abstracts] Attendee registration opens - 1st December Notification of acceptance: Notifications for in-person papers to be released on 13 December. Online-only acceptance notifications will be complete by 30 December. Online sessions: 30th January - Zoom (2pm - 4pm UTC: 9am - 11am EST, 3 - 5pm CET and 7:30 - 9:30pm IST) In-person sessions: 8th February all day - Technology and Global Affairs Innovation Hub Sciences Po, Paris, France. Online sessions: 30th January - Zoom
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The Paris Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, in its focus on the public interest, trust, and governance, acknowledges that trust in AI depends on an effective feedback loop among AI developers, regulators and the broad public: necessitating more participatory approaches to AI development and governance. Scholars and policymakers have emphasised the importance of integrating diverse voices, particularly from marginalised and underrepresented communities, into AI decision-making processes to mitigate the bias, inequality, and ethical blind spots. A shift towards a participatory model challenges traditional, top-down and expert-driven approaches to AI governance and raises important questions about power, agency, representation, and accountability. Amid this incipient “participatory turn” in both the development and governance of AI our goal is to showcase work that demonstrates what it looks like, how and why to do it, as well as what can go wrong.
We invite short papers, posters, presentations and case studies for an interactive research symposium to take place on 8th February 2025 ahead of the 2025 AI Action Summit (Paris, Feb 10th/11th). Submissions should respond to three key themes:
Please read the full call here and submit your abstracts through this form as soon as possible, and by 8th December 2024 at the latest.
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Plenary: Lightning talks and keynote inputs - setting the context and challenge for the day.
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Track Panel: Participatory AI Development - exploring how commissioners and creators of AI tools and platforms can involve affected publics in systems design and development.
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Track Panel: Participatory AI Governance - asking how can affected communities be meaningfully involved in global, national and local governance of AI?
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Poster sessions - Sharing case studies, analysis and practical examples of participatory development and governance of Artificial Intelligence. **
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Networking opportunities - Space and facilitated opportunities to build connections with others studying and working in the field of participatory data and AI.
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Track panel: Participation, Power and Resistance - exploring how can community refusal, contestations and questioning can reshape AI development and governance. ****
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Cross-cutting panel: Evidence, Impacts & future work - bringing together papers and presentations that explore assessment of processes, measurement of impact, and future agendas for research and practice.
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Reception (tbc)
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This symposium is organised by the programme committee as an independent project, and is not part of the formal AI Action Summit.
For information about the main AI Action Summit, please see https://www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-pour-l-action-sur-l-ia