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This paper argues that AI systems should be answerable to the communities they shape, and that five Participatory Design principles adapted from 1970s Scandinavian workplace democracy can make them so.

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load-bearing objection A well-written position paper whose framework is plausible but whose case studies show only peripheral participation, so Section 6's 'demonstrate' overreaches; worth reviewing with revisions. the 4 major comments →

arxiv 2509.12752 v2 pith:TX46EIJY submitted 2025-09-16 cs.HC

Participatory AI: A Scandinavian Approach to Human-Centered AI

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keywords participatory AIparticipatory designhuman-centered AIdemocratic AI governancealgorithmic automationstakeholder participationsocio-technical systemsAI accountability
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The paper proposes Participatory AI (PAI), a framework that applies five principles of Scandinavian Participatory Design—mutual learning, future alternatives, artifact ecologies, empowerment and mediation, and emancipatory practices and democracy—to the design, training, deployment, and evolution of AI systems. The central claim is that people who use AI or live with its consequences should have a genuine say in how those systems are built and governed, treating AI models less as proprietary products and more as shared socio-technical systems. The paper argues that the same democratic design approach developed in the 1970s to resist deskilling by mechanical automation can answer the threats to human agency and democratic values posed by today's opaque, centralized, and overly generic AI. It grounds the framework in five illustrative case studies—classroom language models, creative-professional generative AI, Wikipedia knowledge maintenance, agricultural weather prediction, and industrial quality assurance—and develops design and socio-technical recommendations that would make AI a situated collaborator rather than a universal tool. A sympathetic reader would care because the paper offers a concrete, value-based pathway to democratic AI governance, not just a critique.

Core claim

On the paper's own terms, the central discovery is that the Scandinavian Participatory Design tradition, built for 1970s workplace automation, contains the principles needed to make contemporary AI answerable to the communities it shapes. PAI insists that those affected by AI—workers, students, teachers, citizens, farmers, creative professionals—should participate in its conception, training, deployment, and evolution. The framework maps five PD principles onto four AI design challenges: specialization (how models are fine-tuned from foundation models), multimodality and distributed ecosystems (how AI processes data across devices and services), emergent behavior (how system outputs and role

What carries the argument

The carrying mechanism is the PAI framework itself: a synthesis of five PD principles (mutual learning; future alternatives; artifact ecologies; empowerment and mediation; emancipatory practices and democracy) with four design challenges for algorithmic automation (specialization; multimodality and distributed ecosystems; emergent system behavior; human augmentation). The framework functions as an analytical lens for describing and evaluating AI systems, and as a prescription for shifting participation earlier in the AI lifecycle—so that communities co-author goals, guardrails, evaluation criteria, and integration with local knowledge rather than merely tweaking interfaces.

Load-bearing premise

The framework assumes that the core principles of Scandinavian Participatory Design, developed in the 1970s for workplace software and mechanical automation, transfer effectively to today's AI systems, which are opaque, continuously learning, globally scaled, and concentrated in corporate hands—a transfer asserted but not empirically demonstrated.

What would settle it

Observe a real participatory AI process from inception through deployment and measure whether the affected community gains binding decision rights over the system's data, training, and evolution; if participation remains advisory or extractive—no shift in control—the framework's central claim fails. A direct comparison of two comparable AI systems, one built with PAI and one without, measuring community members' actual decision authority would settle it.

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If this is right

  • AI systems designed under PAI become 'situated collaborators' fine-tuned with the practitioners who understand domain nuances, rather than one-size-fits-all tools.
  • Governance of public-life AI shifts toward a public-utility model: transparent, regulated, and democratically accountable, with community ownership of data and value.
  • Participation moves to the earliest stages, co-authoring system goals, guardrails, and evaluation criteria, which the case studies suggest reduces downstream resistance and design pivots.
  • Feedback and adaptation become infrastructural and continuous, since AI can change rapidly and concept drift requires renegotiation of what counts as 'good' behavior.
  • Practical guidance includes 'archipelagos of local AI sovereignty': networks of locally controlled models rather than monolithic global systems.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Left implicit in the paper is the central empirical risk: whether PD principles actually transfer to AI's opacity, scale, and corporate concentration; a controlled comparison measuring whether PAI processes shift decision authority to communities would test this.
  • A testable extension: the five-principle/four-challenge matrix could be used as an audit instrument for existing AI products, detecting 'participation washing' where community involvement is consultative rather than decision-making.
  • If PAI works, industrial AI development may need to institutionalize participatory roles—worker representatives on governance boards, community oversight committees—analogous to the labor-union structures that powered original PD.
  • The framework's cultural situatedness implies that its prescriptions would require adaptation to non-Scandinavian and non-WEIRD contexts, a point the paper itself acknowledges but does not fully develop.

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Referee Report

4 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper proposes "Participatory AI" (PAI), a framework that applies five Scandinavian Participatory Design principles—mutual learning, future alternatives, artifact ecologies, empowerment and mediation, and emancipatory practices and democracy—to four AI design challenges: specialization, multimodality and distributed ecosystems, emergent system behavior, and human augmentation. The central claim is that PAI makes AI answerable to the communities it shapes, giving affected people a say in AI's conception, training, deployment, and evolution. Five case studies (education, creativity, online knowledge, agriculture, and manufacturing) are presented as analytical illustrations, followed by design recommendations, socio-technical recommendations, and open research questions.

Significance. The paper's main value is conceptual synthesis: it connects the Scandinavian PD tradition to current human-centered AI debates and offers a principle/challenge matrix that practitioners could use to interrogate AI systems. The manuscript is honest about its method (§4.1: cases are analytical rather than empirical, selected for author familiarity), includes a positionality statement (§4.2), and contains a self-critical discussion of cultural specificity and power (§5.1, §5.2). These are genuine strengths. However, if the paper is to be more than an analogy, the case studies must illustrate the promised co-governance; currently they illustrate a "participatory ceiling" more than full participation in AI conception/training. The framework is worth developing, but the stated empirical support needs to be substantially reframed.

major comments (4)
  1. [§3 vs §4.3–4.7 and §6] The central definition of PAI (§3, opening) promises that affected communities have "a say in its conception, training, deployment, and evolution." The case studies do not show this. In manufacturing, §4.7.4 states "the technical AI methods were chosen solely by the researchers"; in agriculture, §4.6.3 states that hardware and data are owned by the startup, and the participatory outcome described is a changed map visualization; in Wikipedia, §4.5.2 states "heavy machine learning computations happen offline" and editors see only precomputed scores; in creativity, §4.4 describes interviews but no participatory design process. The cases therefore demonstrate participation at the UI/data boundary rather than co-governance of model conception or training. Consequently, the opening of §6—"Our case studies demonstrate that participatory AI principles can reshape how communities engage with algo
  2. [§4.4] The creativity case asserts that it builds on "interviews with 30 professionals," but no source, study design, interview protocol, or analysis is cited or described. The text also contains no evidence of participatory design activities; it is a series of possible interventions ("could mean," "might encourage"). Because the paper elsewhere states that its cases are analytical rather than empirical, this case can be retained, but it should be explicitly labeled a speculative/thought experiment rather than a case study. Otherwise it appears to claim unverifiable empirical support for the framework.
  3. [§2.2] The transferability premise is asserted, not demonstrated: "The basic challenges we are facing with today's generative AI are very similar to the challenges faced by early PD" (§2.2). This premise is foundational for the synthesis in §3, yet the case studies reveal structural disanalogies: opaque foundation models trained offline, proprietary data and hardware (§4.6.3), and model choice reserved to researchers (§4.7.4). The paper should state explicit scope conditions and a concrete falsification test for the analogy. For example, it should address what PAI would do in the "offline training" stage that the Wikipedia case explicitly excludes, and how communities could access or contest model internals. Without this, the framework remains an analogy rather than an empirically grounded design theory.
  4. [§4.3.3] The claim that teachers and students are "empowered to fine-tune foundation models" is not supported by the described activities, which involve annotating sentences, aggregating classroom datasets, and training a language model. If the intended model is a small task-specific classifier, the phrase "foundation models" overstates the case; if it is a true foundation model, the paper must explain how teachers/students access, modify, or influence such a model. This affects the strength of the education case as evidence for the Specialization challenge and the broader co-governance claim.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Table 1] In the available rendering, the cells mapping case studies to principles/challenges appear empty. Please verify that the table displays the intended coverage marks.
  2. [§3.1–§3.2] The principle and challenge headings contain nonstandard inline symbols (e.g., "/graduati⌢n-cap", "/hand-sparkles") that appear to be rendering artifacts or icon placeholders. Replace these with clean text or proper figures.
  3. [§4.5.2] The "preliminary user study involving five Wikipedia editors" is reported without participant recruitment, task details, measures, or analysis. Since the case is analytical this is acceptable, but the sentence should be hedged (e.g., "an informal pilot") to avoid implying a formal empirical study.
  4. [§5.3] The footnote about PD expanding into everyday life is tangential to the civic-AI argument; consider moving it to the main text or removing it.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the PAI framework is an explicitly normative synthesis of external PD literature, and the case studies are declared illustrative rather than derived evidence.

full rationale

This is a conceptual and position paper rather than an empirical derivation, so the main circularity risks are (a) deriving the framework from the same cases used to 'demonstrate' it, and (b) load-bearing self-citation. Neither materializes. Section 4.1 explicitly states: 'Their purpose is analytical rather than empirical. We explicitly did not derive our participatory AI framework from these cases; instead, we use them to illustrate how the framework can guide analysis and description of AI systems through a participatory lens.' The framework in Section 3 is presented as a synthesis of PD principles from the external PD literature (Bødker et al., Ehn, Kyng, etc.) applied to four AI design challenges; it is not defined in terms of the case outcomes. The case studies are further self-limited in ways that reduce any empirical claim: Section 4.5.2 notes that 'heavy machine learning computations happen offline'; Section 4.6.3 says 'both hardware and produced data are owned by the startup company'; Section 4.7.4 admits 'the technical AI methods were chosen solely by the researchers'; and Section 5.1 concedes that Scandinavian PD is a culturally specific framework whose universalization would be problematic. These passages undercut the strong Section 6 sentence 'Our case studies demonstrate that participatory AI principles can reshape how communities engage with algorithmic systems' — but an evidential overclaim is not circularity: the paper does not reduce its conclusion to its premises by construction. Self-citation is substantial (Bødker, Bilstrup, Petersen, Inie, Falk, Yildirim, Arora, Pablos-Sarabia, Grønbæk, etc.), including the novelty assertion in Section 2.1 that 'sole in the literature is Inie et al.'s work applying participatory methods specifically to generative AI tools for creative professionals.' That assertion rests on co-authored prior work and is mildly self-referential, but it is not load-bearing for the central framework's derivation. The central claim that PD principles can be applied to AI is supported by an independent body of PD scholarship and by the paper's own normative argument. Therefore: no significant circularity, score 1 for minor non-load-bearing self-citation and overstatement, not for circular reasoning.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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No physical entities, free parameters, or fitted constants are introduced; the paper is a conceptual framework proposal. The axioms above are the domain assumptions on which the central claim rests, especially the transferability of PD principles to AI and the sufficiency of the illustrative case studies.

axioms (4)
  • domain assumption The five listed principles (mutual learning, future alternatives, artifact ecologies, empowerment and mediation, emancipatory practices and democracy) faithfully capture the core of Scandinavian Participatory Design.
    Used as the basis of the framework (Section 3.1). The paper cites Bødker et al. [24] but does not justify why exactly these five and not others.
  • domain assumption The challenges of algorithmic automation in AI are sufficiently similar to 1970s mechanical automation that PD principles transfer without fundamental modification.
    Stated in Section 2.2: 'The basic challenges we are facing with today's generative AI are very similar to the challenges faced by early PD'. This is the core transferability premise.
  • domain assumption Democratic participation in AI conception, training, deployment, and evolution is practically feasible notwithstanding technical opacity and corporate control.
    Implied by the PAI proposal (Section 3); the paper acknowledges difficulties (e.g., Sloane et al. on participation washing) but the framework assumes meaningful participation is achievable.
  • ad hoc to paper The five case studies, selected for author familiarity, are sufficient to illustrate the framework's applicability.
    Section 4.1 explicitly states the selection criteria and acknowledges the sample is illustrative; the cases are used to demonstrate the framework, not to test it.

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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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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2509.12752 by Akhil Arora, Anton Wolter, Arvind Srinivasan, Caroline Berger, Christoph A. Johns, Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose, Duosi Dai, Eva Eriksson, Eve Hoggan, Gabriela Molina Le\'on, Germ\'an Leiva, Hans-J\"org Schulz, Hugo Andersson, Ira Assent, Jeanette Falk, Jens Emil Sloth Gr{\o}nb{\ae}k, Joachim Nyborg, Johannes Ellemose, Jonas Frich, Juan S\'anchez Esquivel, Kaj Gr{\o}nb{\ae}k, Karl-Emil Kj{\ae}r Bilstrup, Kim Halskov, Luke Connelly, Marianne Graves Petersen, Meredith Siang-Yun Chou, Michael Mose Biskjaer, Michael Wessely, Michel Yildirim, Midas Nouwens, Mille Skovhus Lunding, Morten Birk, Nanna Inie, Nearchos Potamitis, Niklas Elmqvist, Olav W. Bertelsen, Ole Sejer Iversen, Peter Dalsgaard, Rachel Charlotte Smith, Rafael Pablos Sarabia, Sebastian Hubenschmid, Simon Aagaard Enni, Stefanie Zollmann, Susanne B{\o}dker, Thorbj{\o}rn Mikkelsen, Tobias Langlotz, Vaishali Dhanoa, Yijing Jiang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Participatory AI. Our new framework for Participatory AI (PAI) applies the original prin￾ciples of Scandinavian Participatory Design (PD) to the new threats to human agency and democracy imposed by the ongoing Golden Age of artificial intelligence. 1 Introduction In 1970s Scandinavia, a distinctive approach to technological change emerged amid strong labor unions, robust worker protections, and progressive… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: AI in the classroom. To support teachers and students in acting skillfully around AI, we explore how AI technologies and methods can interplay with knowledge and skills in existing school subjects. From left to right: Teachers engaging with AI activities as part of a workshop; students discussing sentences which they are annotating to train a language model; a teacher’s lesson plan which integrates machine… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Using GenAI to support creativity. A research prototype using GenAI to support diver￾gent and convergent phases of team-based ideation. behind AI was crucial for the teachers’ ability to see AI as a tool they could take control of and use on their own terms. At the same time, the first language teachers’ knowledge of their subject was crucial for developing tools and activities where students’ skills and k… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Human-in-the-loop knowledge maintenance. An excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Emin G¨un Sirer” showcasing WIKINSERT’s entity-aware highlighting via an overlaid heatmap (redder regions indicate higher relevance, whereas whiter regions indicate lower relevance) and the interface components: minimap for global navigation and interaction menu panel for threshold ad￾justment. (Layout shifted for the sake of d… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Farmer-friendly AI weather predictions. (Left) Using machine-learning-based models, the startup is able to provide hyper-local weather predictions to farmers via a mobile application. (Right) Physical weather stations in the fields automatically collect data to train and inform the prediction models. dation,” not only technically but socially. This highlighted the need for continuous renegotiation of syste… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Case study: industry object recognition. Overview sketch of first version. Recognition of objects and their pose is detected by deep learning. The table surface display was selected to support work ergonomics. 4.7 Case Study 5: Manufacturing and PAI Industrial environments today face dual pressures: Frequent job transitions requiring rapid skill acquisition and the need to reduce tedious work that drives e… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Remote cooperative prototyping. The tool was developed as part of the project to enable remote experimentation on the visual interface during the enforced social distancing of the COVID￾19 pandemic. 4.7.4 Lessons Learned The PD activities focused on problem identification and the user interface design. The problem identification formulated an AI challenge for the researchers to be able identify the right p… view at source ↗

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