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author Elmqvist, Niklas
Hoggan, Eve
Schulz, Hans-Jörg
Petersen, Marianne Graves
Dalsgaard, Peter
Assent, Ira
Bertelsen, Olav W.
Arora, Akhil
Grønbæk, Kaj
Bødker, Susanne
Klokmose, Clemens Nylandsted
Smith, Rachel Charlotte
Hubenschmid, Sebastian
Johns, Christoph A.
León, Gabriela Molina
Wolter, Anton
Ellemose, Johannes
Dhanoa, Vaishali
Enni, Simon Aagaard
Lunding, Mille Skovhus
Bilstrup, Karl-Emil Kjær
Esquivel, Juan Sánchez
Connelly, Luke
Sarabia, Rafael Pablos
Birk, Morten
Nyborg, Joachim
Zollmann, Stefanie
Langlotz, Tobias
Chou, Meredith Siang-Yun
Grønbæk, Jens Emil Sloth
Wessely, Michael
Jiang, Yijing
Berger, Caroline
Dai, Duosi
Biskjaer, Michael Mose
Leiva, Germán
Frich, Jonas
Eriksson, Eva
Halskov, Kim
Mikkelsen, Thorbjørn
Potamitis, Nearchos
Yildirim, Michel
Srinivasan, Arvind
Falk, Jeanette
Inie, Nanna
Iversen, Ole Sejer
Andersson, Hugo
author_facet Elmqvist, Niklas
Hoggan, Eve
Schulz, Hans-Jörg
Petersen, Marianne Graves
Dalsgaard, Peter
Assent, Ira
Bertelsen, Olav W.
Arora, Akhil
Grønbæk, Kaj
Bødker, Susanne
Klokmose, Clemens Nylandsted
Smith, Rachel Charlotte
Hubenschmid, Sebastian
Johns, Christoph A.
León, Gabriela Molina
Wolter, Anton
Ellemose, Johannes
Dhanoa, Vaishali
Enni, Simon Aagaard
Lunding, Mille Skovhus
Bilstrup, Karl-Emil Kjær
Esquivel, Juan Sánchez
Connelly, Luke
Sarabia, Rafael Pablos
Birk, Morten
Nyborg, Joachim
Zollmann, Stefanie
Langlotz, Tobias
Chou, Meredith Siang-Yun
Grønbæk, Jens Emil Sloth
Wessely, Michael
Jiang, Yijing
Berger, Caroline
Dai, Duosi
Biskjaer, Michael Mose
Leiva, Germán
Frich, Jonas
Eriksson, Eva
Halskov, Kim
Mikkelsen, Thorbjørn
Potamitis, Nearchos
Yildirim, Michel
Srinivasan, Arvind
Falk, Jeanette
Inie, Nanna
Iversen, Ole Sejer
Andersson, Hugo
contents 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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spellingShingle Participatory AI: A Scandinavian Approach to Human-Centered AI
Elmqvist, Niklas
Hoggan, Eve
Schulz, Hans-Jörg
Petersen, Marianne Graves
Dalsgaard, Peter
Assent, Ira
Bertelsen, Olav W.
Arora, Akhil
Grønbæk, Kaj
Bødker, Susanne
Klokmose, Clemens Nylandsted
Smith, Rachel Charlotte
Hubenschmid, Sebastian
Johns, Christoph A.
León, Gabriela Molina
Wolter, Anton
Ellemose, Johannes
Dhanoa, Vaishali
Enni, Simon Aagaard
Lunding, Mille Skovhus
Bilstrup, Karl-Emil Kjær
Esquivel, Juan Sánchez
Connelly, Luke
Sarabia, Rafael Pablos
Birk, Morten
Nyborg, Joachim
Zollmann, Stefanie
Langlotz, Tobias
Chou, Meredith Siang-Yun
Grønbæk, Jens Emil Sloth
Wessely, Michael
Jiang, Yijing
Berger, Caroline
Dai, Duosi
Biskjaer, Michael Mose
Leiva, Germán
Frich, Jonas
Eriksson, Eva
Halskov, Kim
Mikkelsen, Thorbjørn
Potamitis, Nearchos
Yildirim, Michel
Srinivasan, Arvind
Falk, Jeanette
Inie, Nanna
Iversen, Ole Sejer
Andersson, Hugo
Human-Computer Interaction
H.5.2; H.1.2
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.
title Participatory AI: A Scandinavian Approach to Human-Centered AI
topic Human-Computer Interaction
H.5.2; H.1.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12752