From Clicks to Consensus: Collective Consent Assemblies for Data Governance | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Could we govern data consent through citizen assemblies? What would that look like? We design the concept of a "consent assembly" in our new #CHI2026 paper with @linkyi.bsky.social, Paul Goelz, @robin.berjon.com 🧵

#AIGovernance #DataGovernance #AIPolicy #GDPR #AIAct #FAccT2026 #DigitalOmnibus

Your #FAccT2025 General Chairs @sciorestis.bsky.social, @metaxa.net, and I, reporting from the venue.

We're looking forward to welcoming you to the Athens Conservatoire or online!

Hi all! Im creating a course dedicated to research ethics. Topics include history of research ethics; famous case studies in unethical research (e.g., Stanford prison experiment, Tuskeegee syphyllis experiment, etc.), informed consent, etc. If anyone has readings / recs / advice, let me know!

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The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | ACM Conferences CHI: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems #chi2025 are now online! dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

Calling our international communities! We know not everyone can travel in person to #FAccT2025 and there might be heightened travel risks this year. If you're organizing a local meetup, we'd love to know and help you publicize. Contact our publicity chairs here: facctconference.org/2025/committ...

I will be presenting our paper during this session in Yokohama 🇯🇵 on April 29th: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...



I'll be attending CHI in-person, let me know if you'd like to meet up and chat! (4/4)

AI governance tends to focus on protecting end-users, not always co-generators
 (creative workers)
- We discuss the inherent power imbalances present in the ability for creative workers to get consent, credit, and compensation for their work, and how to give more agency to creative workers (3/4)

Key insights:
- We provide a more nuanced discussion of consent, credit, and compensation, identifying how they may benefit or even harm creatives, and how to apply them responsibly in practice 

- We investigate what creative workers want out of GenAI governance, noticing that current
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Governance of Generative AI in Creative Work: Consent, Credit, Compensation, and Beyond Since the emergence of generative AI, creative workers have spoken up about the career-based harms they have experienced arising from this new technology. A common theme in these accounts of harm is t...

How can we *responsibly* train GenAI on creative work? This is what we investigate in our upcoming #CHI2025 paper! Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.11457

Work in collaboration with Amruta Mahuli, Six Silberman, @rdbinns.bsky.social, Jun Zhao and @asiabiega.bsky.social
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Newspaper stand with newspapers all carrying the front page Campaign 'make it fAIr'

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training.

I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.