As part of the TRUMAN project on trustworthy human-centric artificial intelligence, a TRUMAN-supported workshop titled “Moving Beyond Clicks: Rethinking Consent and User Control in the Age of AI” was held at CHI 2026 in Barcelona on 14 April 2026. The workshop aligned with TRUMAN’s broader mission of contributing to the evaluation and development of trustworthy AI solutions through a holistic, human-centered perspective. The workshop brought together researchers and practitioners to explore how consent and user control may need to evolve in AI-mediated environments. It was structured in two interactive sessions. In the first session, participants worked in groups to develop future scenarios and personas; in the second session, they translated these into provotypes: provocative prototype concepts designed to stimulate reflection and discussion about desirable and undesirable futures.
Participants were divided into five thematic groups. Each group drew on accepted position papers and addressed a distinct area of user control and consent in the age of AI: Group 1: AI as consent delegate, assistant, or bounded decision-maker; Group 2: Felt, Multimodal, Actionable Consent; Group 3: Consent for passive and implicit interactions & complementary technical protections; Group 4: Collective consent and control; and Group 5: Personalized privacy assistants for exercising control, action, and recourse. Through collaborative design activities, each group developed a scenario, at least one future persona, and a corresponding provotype situated in context. The workshop concluded with plenary presentations, where the groups presented and discussed their concepts with the broader audience. The resulting outputs, scenarios, personas, and provotypes, provide insights into future approaches to consent, control, and can inform ongoing work on AI technologies and human-centered interaction with AI systems.