Dear all, We invite you to submit an abstract to 4S open panel "Power, Responsibility and Expertise at the Expanding Table(s) of AI Design and Governance" at the 2025 4S Conference, which will take place in Seattle, USA on September 3 – 7, 2025. Deadline for submission: January 31, 2025 4S Open Panel #35 <https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_seattle.php> *Title*: Power, Responsibility and Expertise at the Expanding Table(s) of AI Design and Governance *Organizers:* Stephen Yang, University of Southern California Alphoncina Lyamuya, University of Southern California Rohan Grover, University of Southern California *Abstract:* The pursuits of social and ethical responsibility in AI design and governance markedly translate to the liberal inclusion of diverse stakeholders. This introduces a new set of experts and expertise to the table. Beyond engineers in technology companies and policymakers in government agencies, the design and governance of AI is increasingly (re)configured by a growing constellation of “responsible AI” actors and organizations — such as user experience researchers, ethics consultants, privacy counsels, data annotators, community representatives, inter-governmental organizations, trust and safety vendors, standard-making bodies, civil societies, labor unions, and many more. Despite the broader inclusion of experts and expertise, only certain methods are legitimized as the normative lingua franca of how we ought to do responsible AI, wielding greater political valence and epistemic authority over others. These include legal compliance, risk assessment, algorithmic auditing, preference elicitation, red teaming, and user experience design. By contrast, other possibilities of design and governance, namely prefigurative design, critical fabulation, and agonistic pluralism, are often sidelined or outright dismissed. To understand the redistribution of power and responsibility at the expanding table of AI design and governance, this panel invites submissions that critically interrogate the intra- and inter-organizational politics of responsible AI expertise. We welcome empirical studies that scrutinize the stabilizing (and destabilizing) of particular actors and epistemes of doing responsible AI over others. We also welcome contributions that genealogically situate the contestation of power, responsibility, and expertise in present-day configurations of responsible AI within longer historical contingencies, as well as contributions that conceptualize alternative forms, relations, and structures of doing responsible AI in light of — or in spite of — the organizational and epistemic politics at play. We particularly encourage submissions that consider the politics of responsible AI expertise on the margins, at the infrastructural level, at global and planetary scales, and on longer temporal horizons. Submission guidelines and additional panel details (panel #35) can be found here <https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_seattle.php>. Best, Alphoncina Lyamuya Ph.D. Student in Communication USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Center for Information, Technology and Public Life (CITAP) Graduate Student Affiliate She/her