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Infrastructuring Contestability: A Framework for Community-Defined AI Value Pluralism
Andreas Mayer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05187 https://

Infrastructuring Contestability: A Framework for Community-Defined AI Value Pluralism
The proliferation of AI-driven systems presents a fundamental challenge to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), often diminishing user agency and failing to account for value pluralism. Current approaches to value alignment, which rely on centralized, top-down definitions, lack the mechanisms for meaningful contestability. This leaves users and communities unable to challenge or shape the values embedded in the systems that govern their digital lives,…