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Crafting Participatory Tech Futures: Proposal for a CRAFT (Critiquing and Rethinking Accountability, Fairness, and Transparency) session

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: “Artificial intelligence” (AI) is often framed as an inevitable force—a future unfolding beyond collective control and concentrated in the hands of a technological elite. But what if AI futures were not something delivered to us, but something we could deliberate, contest, and build together? What if diverse publics could gather to imagine technological futures grounded in real societal and ecological needs, and chart practical pathways toward them? This session invites participants to affirm imagination as a collective practice. Through expert facilitation and participatory world-building, we will move beyond abstract optimism or dystopian critique, and instead co-define actionable, justice-oriented AI futures. The session unfolds in three interconnected phases: Discovery, Encounters, and Crafting. Sign up to receive updates about the broader initiative at https://raifutures.com. We have a Prompts Library, which you can read more about and contribute to here.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19667261

Authors: Kherroubi Garcia, Ismael, Tollon, Fabio, Kirkpatrick, Christine, Anshur, Ramla, Wright, Connor, Dewey, Ve, Duarte, Tania, Schneider, Juliane, Figueroa, David

Institutions: University of Edinburgh, San Diego Supercomputer Center, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, We and AI, Northeastern University London, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Language: English

Topic: Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7155422016

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