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Participatory AI: A Scandinavian Approach to Human-Centered AI

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AI's transformative impact on work, education, and everyday life makes it as much a political artifact as a technological one. Current AI models are opaque, centralized, and overly generic. The algorithmic automation they provide threatens human agency and democratic values in both workplaces and daily life. To confront such challenges, we turn to Scandinavian Participatory Design (PD), which was devised in the 1970s to face a similar threat from mechanical automation. In the PD tradition, technology is seen not just as an artifact, but as a locus of democracy. Drawing from this tradition, we propose Participatory AI as a PD approach to human-centered AI that applies five PD principles to four design challenges for algorithmic automation. We use concrete case studies to illustrate how to treat AI models less as proprietary products and more as shared socio-technical systems that enhance rather than diminish human agency, human dignity, and human values.

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Context-Mediated Domain Adaptation in Multi-Agent Sensemaking Systems

cs.HC · 2026-03-25 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Context-mediated domain adaptation treats user modifications to AI artifacts as implicit domain specifications that reshape LLM-powered multi-agent reasoning, demonstrated via the Seedentia system which extracted 46 domain knowledge entries from expert edits.

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