2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Work in Progress: Developing a Permanent Symposium on AI: an auto-ethnography

Decision-makers worldwide face complex AI challenges, often without sufficient input from non-technical stakeholders, resulting in a democratic deficit. To address this, we propose the Permanent Symposium on AI (PSAI), a novel facilitation of inclusive, interdisciplinary, global dialogue on AI. This work-in-progress study is part of a larger research project investigating the challenges and gaps between governance and technical expertise in AI decision-making. This study leverages a Grounded Theory Autoethnographic (GTA) approach to document the end-to-end development and design considerations in envisioning the PSAI. Our approach will inform the future design choices in developing and testing of the PSAI - ensuring transparency, contextual relevance, and effectiveness. This specific auto-ethnographic endeavor seeks to highlight the need for a Permanent Symposium on AI and document the considerations, challenges, and hopes in designing one.

Authors
  1. Mr. Animesh Paul University of Georgia [biography]
  2. Ms. Rubaina Khan University of Toronto [biography]
  3. Leslie Salgado University of Calgary [biography]
  4. Dr. Branislav Radeljić Aula Fellowship for AI Science, Tech, and Policy [biography]
  5. Peer Herholz Northwestern University
  6. Sylvie T. Leduc York University
  7. Dr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri Private Corporation [biography]
Note

The full paper will be available to logged in and registered conference attendees once the conference starts on June 22, 2025, and to all visitors after the conference ends on June 25, 2025

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  • Advocacy and Policy
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