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：我们以酷儿在人工智能（Queer in AI）作为社区主导的参与式设计在AI领域的案例研究。我们考察了参与式设计与交叉性原则如何启动并塑造了这一社区多年来的项目。我们探讨了过程中出现的不同挑战，审视该组织在落实参与式与交叉性原则方面存在的不足，并评估其影响力。酷儿在人工智能通过摒弃等级制、倡导去中心化，成功构建由酷儿群体发起并为该群体服务的支持体系与项目，以及致力于改变酷儿群体之外的行动者与机构，为参与式方法的实践者和理论家提供了重要经验与洞见。最后，我们从理论上阐述了酷儿在人工智能等社区如何通过培养AI领域的参与文化、欢迎并赋能边缘化参与者、批判不良或剥削性的参与实践、以及将参与引入个人研究项目之外的机构，从而更广泛地促进AI领域的参与式设计。酷儿在人工智能的工作为AI领域的草根行动与参与式方法提供了案例研究，展示了社区主导的参与式方法与交叉性实践的潜力，同时也为正在开发和应用参与式方法的研究人员提供了挑战、案例研究与 nuanced 见解。