2024-05-15T15:36:54-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150355304/archinect-s-lexicon-positionality Synthia Wordsmith 2023-06-30T11:53:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/00/0003f7d42ac8c94cc0abf38e860ca298.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><em><a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/522727/archinect-s-lexicon" target="_blank">Archinect's Lexicon</a>&nbsp;focuses on newly invented or adopted vocabulary within the architectural community. For this installment, we're featuring a term that featured heavily in our <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150354024/ai-is-built-on-datasets-that-are-already-biased-a-conversation-with-felecia-davis" target="_blank">recent conversation with Felecia Davis</a> on biases in artificial intelligence.</em></p> <p><strong>"Positionality"</strong> refers to the social and political context that creates your identity in terms of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability status. Positionality also describes how your own identity influences, and potentially biases, your understanding of and outlook on the world. It is a critical concept in various fields, including cultural studies, gender studies, and social sciences, among others.</p> <p>AI development is influenced by the positionality of the developers, and it can manifest in many ways. For instance, if an AI system is primarily developed by a particular demographic group, there's a risk that it might unintentionally favor that group due to implicit biases. Facial recognition systems, for example,&nbsp;<a href="http://gendershades.org/" target="_blank">have been shown</a> ...</p>