The Citizens’ Track on Artificial Intelligence (CTAI) did not emerge in a vacuum. It is the culmination of more than three years of participatory action research, global deliberative democracy experiments, grassroots community organising, and international policy dialogue.
From the first-of-its-kind People’s Panel on AI observing the 2023 UK AI Safety Summit, to the Global Citizens’ Assembly on AI options design lab for the UN Summit of the Future in 2024, two worldwide editions of the Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium (PAIRS), and the landmark 2026 Whitepaper, this work has been built hand-in-hand with an expanding global coalition across five continents.
A chronological record of the key initiatives, research labs, assemblies, and symposia that shaped the theory and practice of the citizens' track.
Alongside the UK Government’s inaugural AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, 12 demographically representative members of the public were convened to observe, interrogate, and deliberate on high-level AI policy debates at the AI Fringe.
In response to the UN High-Level Advisory Body on AI calling for AI to be governed “for all, by all”, a multi-month policy and practice design lab was launched to formulate actionable operational models for global citizen deliberation.
Drawing foundational principles from the world’s first planetary citizens’ assembly at COP26 and the ongoing development of permanent global deliberation infrastructure, CTAI builds upon proven sortition and civic lottery methodologies.
The Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium (PAIRS) united over 200 researchers, practitioners, and activists across the world to build the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of participatory AI governance.
Published A Citizens Track on AI Governance: Alignment, Agency and Accountability, synthesizing years of deliberative practice into a definitive theory of change and architectural roadmap for global AI governance.
In Geneva, during the week of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, WSIS+, and AI for Good, the coalition hosted A Citizens Track on AI Governance: From Theory to Practice inside the United Nations headquarters.
Scaling from high-level policy into global grassroots action through an open co-design sprint for community assembly toolkits, mobilizing distributed dialogues ahead of the 2027 Geneva AI Summit and PAIRS 2027.
Our multi-year journey has been forged through deep collaboration with leading research centres, deliberative democracy pioneers, grassroots practitioners from the Global South, and international policy institutions.
Leading innovators in planetary sortition, citizens' assemblies, and public participation.
World-class universities and institutes advancing participatory AI research, ethics, and machine intelligence.
Frontline organizations pioneering community-led AI audits, digital rights, and marginalized community agency.
Global advocacy networks, digital rights coalitions, and multilateral civic initiatives.
Explore and download the foundational reports, policy briefs, and design documents produced throughout this multi-year initiative.
The Citizens’ Track is expanding every day. Whether you are a deliberative democracy practitioner, a grassroots community organizer, a researcher, or a policymaker, there is a role for you in shaping this global movement.
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