We present Queer in AI as a case study for community-led participatory design in AI. We examine how participatory design and intersectional tenets started and shaped this community's programs over the years. We discuss different challenges that emerged in the process, look at ways this organization has fallen short of operationalizing participatory and intersectional principles, and then assess the organization's impact. Queer in AI provides important lessons and insights for practitioners and theorists of participatory methods broadly through its rejection of hierarchy in favor of decentralization, success at building aid and programs by and for the queer community, and effort to change actors and institutions outside of the queer community. Finally, we theorize how communities like Queer in AI contribute to the participatory design in AI more broadly by fostering cultures of participation in AI, welcoming and empowering marginalized participants, critiquing poor or exploitative participatory practices, and bringing participation to institutions outside of individual research projects. Queer in AI's work serves as a case study of grassroots activism and participatory methods within AI, demonstrating the potential of community-led participatory methods and intersectional praxis, while also providing challenges, case studies, and nuanced insights to researchers developing and using participatory methods.

翻译：我们将Queer in AI作为社区主导的参与式AI设计案例进行研究。本文探讨了参与式设计与交叉性原则如何多年来催生并塑造了这一社区的项目。我们分析了过程中出现的不同挑战，审视了该组织在践行参与式与交叉性原则方面存在的不足，并评估了其影响力。Queer in AI通过拒绝等级制度、倡导去中心化，成功建设由酷儿群体发起并为该群体服务的支持项目，以及努力改变酷儿群体之外的机构与行动者，为参与式方法的实践者与理论家提供了重要的经验与见解。最后，我们从理论上阐述了类似Queer in AI的社区如何通过培育参与式AI文化、欢迎并赋权边缘化参与者、批判不良或剥削性的参与式实践，以及将参与融入个人研究项目之外的机构中，从而更广泛地推动参与式AI设计。Queer in AI的研究工作作为AI领域内草根行动与参与式方法的案例，展示了社区主导的参与式方法与交叉性实践的潜力，同时为开发和应用参与式方法的研究者提供了挑战、案例研究及细致入微的见解。