Sociotechnical AI Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for HCI

Rapid advancements in and adoption of frontier AI systems have amplified the need for AI governance measures across the public sector, academia, and industry. Prior work in technical AI governance has proposed agendas for governing technical components in AI development, such as data, models, and compute. However, recent calls for more sociotechnical approaches recognize the critical role of social infrastructures surrounding technical ones in shaping governance decisions and efforts. While scholars and practitioners have advocated for sociotechnical AI governance, concrete research directions in this area are only beginning to emerge. This workshop aims to gather the expertise of researchers in HCI and adjacent disciplines to chart promising paths forward for sociotechnical AI governance. To make problems in this area more tangible, we outline four core governance challenges for contributions: anticipating high-priority risks to address with governance, identifying where to focus governance efforts and who should lead those efforts, designing appropriate interventions and tools to implement governance actions in practice, and evaluating the effectiveness of these interventions and tools in context. Through papers, panel discussions, keynotes, and collaborative drafting of a research agenda, this workshop will build community and empower actionable efforts to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens.