This chapter reviews existing initiatives to include societal perspectives in AI governance and technology design and introduces the ‘Artificial Intelligence for Assessment’ (AI FORA) approach applied to AI use in public social service provision. The chapter starts with reviewing contemporary AI governance frameworks which still need to be translated into multi-stakeholder governance and inclusive technology co-design. For this, the emerging field of ‘Participatory AI’ seems to bear promise. After identifying and discussing the participatory requirements for inclusive technology co-design, especially related to the safe and effective participation of vulnerable groups, the chapter introduces the AI FORA approach. The participatory AI FORA approach starts with the assumption that the gap between technology and society, in this case the disconnect of dynamic cultural values from AI-based social assessment, leads to fairness issues of existing systems. To connect cultural values to technology production for more desirable systems, society, i.e. all societal groups stakeholding in this area of technological innovation, needs to get involved in technology production and policy. The chapter presents the participatory research methods AI FORA employs to achieve inclusive technology co-design around the project’s ‘Safe Spaces’ concept that ensures equitable participation of stakeholders in AI-based social assessment for public service provision. The chapter ends with a reflection on the claims of inclusive technology co-design, the consequences for related science communication in AI, and the impacts on AI policy and governance.