PARTICIPATE-AI: Exploring the Participatory Turn in Citizen-Centred AI

This workshop explores value alignment for participatory AI, focusing on interfaces and tools that bridge citizen participation and technical development. As AI systems increasingly impact society, meaningful and actionable citizen input in their development becomes critical. However, current participatory approaches often fail to influence actual AI systems, with citizen values becoming trivialized during translation to technical requirements. The workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from HCI, AI, and social sciences to address challenges such as risk articulation, value evolution, democratic legitimacy, and the translation gap between community input and system implementation. Topics covered include interactive demonstrations of interfaces (or other ‘boundary objects’) for value elicitation within different communities, critical analysis of failed participatory attempts, methods for capturing evolving community values, and approaches for making citizen concerns actionable for developers.