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Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium

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A space to share research and practice that puts affected communities at the heart of AI development and governance. More at https://pairs.site

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Connected by Data@connectedbydata.org · 4w ago

We need a citizens' track on AI. @timdavies.org.uk, @octavia-fr.bsky.social & @suoman.bsky.social wrote a think piece explaining what we've done and why its needed. 📰 Article: www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/a-citiz... 🔗 White Paper: citizens-track.org/2026/report/

A citizens’ track is needed for democratic AI to move from rhetoric to reality

The UN Global Dialogue on AI as an opportunity for embedding public participation in decision-making

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Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium@pairs.site · last mo.

Toward Representative AI Governance. Kris R. writes in Tech Policy Press about growing public anxiety surrounding AI and argues that technology is currently being built without the very people it is designed for. 🔗 Read the article here: www.techpolicy.press/toward-repre...

Toward Representative AI Governance

Kris Rose argues that public concern is not an obstacle to AI developments; it is the key to building representative governance that serves the people.

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Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium@pairs.site · last mo.

🖋️ Community updates: publication and projects When is AI democratic? In a new paper published in AI & Society, Francesco Nasi examines the concept of "democratic AI." 🔗 Read the open-access paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

When is AI democratic? Artificial intelligence and democratic empowerment - AI & SOCIETY

While many debates frequently emphasize the threats artificial intelligence poses to democratic life, scholars are increasingly examining the role AI may play in supporting democracies. However, littl...

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Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium@pairs.site · last mo.

🖋️ Why we need to talk about AI & racism, now. Writing for Our AI Collective Dr. Mark Wong reflects on the rise of racialized hostility in the UK & highlights concerns about how algorithmic systems & AI models are normalizing everyday racism and exclusion. 🔗 www.our-ai-collective.info/news-and-blo...

Why we need to talk about AI and racism, now — Our AI Collective

Blog post from Dr Mark Wong. People are being regularly and increasingly other-ed, excluded, and discriminated against by AI because of their skin colour and race. This should not be normal.

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Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium@pairs.site · last mo.

From 7-10 July we will be present at the AI For Good Global Summit as part of the "PAVE: Towards a citizens track on AI" stand. Featuring over 50 examples of public engagement on AI, the stand will be a space to showcase real-world public participation to conference delegates.

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Connected by Data@connectedbydata.org · last mo.

Some recent work we've undertaken with @tuc.org.uk threw up several lessons that apply more generally to the adoption of AI across the public sector. Jeni Tennison shares them in this blog. 🔗

Ten lessons on public sector AI from our work with education unions

Between July 2025 and April 2026, as part of our project to build worker power to shape public sector AI, Connected by Data and the TUC worked with nine education unions on an action learning programme to test how to catalyse the union movement’s capacity to understand, negotiate and advocate on AI. This work threw up several lessons that apply more generally to the adoption of AI across the public sector – the risks and benefits; the challenges and opportunities; and the roles that workers can and should play in AI’s development, deployment and evaluation – which I’ve thrown together into this listicle.

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Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium@pairs.site · 3mo ago

Unfortunately the 5pm UTC (US timezone) community call on Monday 25 May is cancelled. But the UK/Europe-ish 9am UTC call is still on and being hosted by @pierrenoro.bsky.social. The calls takes place in the "community-calls" voice channel on the PAIRS Discord Server. www.pairs.site/PAIRS-Commun...

PAIRS Community Calls

Starting from 23rd March 2026 we are holding a drop-in PAIRS Community Call on the fourth Monday of each month, one at 9am UTC and one at 5pm UTC.

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Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium@pairs.site · 3mo ago

🗣️Monday 25 May is the next Community Calls - open to all the PAIRS community. There'll be sessions at: 🌍 9am UTC with @pierrenoro.bsky.social 🌎 5pm UTC @nedcpr.bsky.social The calls takes place in the "community-calls" voice channel on the PAIRS Discord Server. www.pairs.site/PAIRS-Commun...

PAIRS Community Calls

Starting from 23rd March 2026 we are holding a drop-in PAIRS Community Call on the fourth Monday of each month, one at 9am UTC and one at 5pm UTC.

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Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium@pairs.site · 3mo ago

🗣️Monday 25 April is the next Community Calls - open to all the PAIRS community. There'll be sessions at: 🌍 9am UTC with @pierrenoro.bsky.social 🌎 5pm UTC @nedcpr.bsky.social The calls takes place in the "community-calls" voice channel on the PAIRS Discord Server. www.pairs.site/PAIRS-Commun...

PAIRS Community Calls

Starting from 23rd March 2026 we are holding a drop-in PAIRS Community Call on the fourth Monday of each month, one at 9am UTC and one at 5pm UTC.

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Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium@pairs.site · 3mo ago

Session I3 at the in person PAIRS 2026 event was chaired by Krishna Deo Singh Chauhan (Cyril Shroff Centre for AI, Law and Regulation) and he was joined by: Meghna Pandamukherjee on "Machine Bias and Caste Proxies: Governing Discriminatory AI through DPDP and GDPR Lenses" youtu.be/L3vLk6dT7qA (1/2)

Machine Bias and Caste Proxies: Governing Discriminatory AI through DPDP and GDPR Lenses

YouTube video by Connected by Data

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