{"id":1775,"date":"2025-03-31T13:59:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2025\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=1775"},"modified":"2025-03-31T13:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:59:24","slug":"interrogating-ai-positionality-and-identity-of-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/event\/interrogating-ai-positionality-and-identity-of-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Interrogating AI: Positionality and identity of artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1776 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Firefly-Create-an-image-that-complements-this-workshop-title-Interrogating-AI-Positionality-and-id-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"A glowing orangey thumbprint surrounded by blue connected lines as if it's connected to a computer.\" width=\"443\" height=\"336\" \/>We bring a unique set of lived experiences to our practice as educators, artists, designers, and learners. When we use artificial intelligence tools to supplement or enhance our work through a humanistic lens, we use it as an extension of ourselves seeking to learn or create something new. In initial use of AI, we can be met with inherit bias, vagueness and limitations in the output. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The more we train an AI to learn about us, the more it mirrors us through our own syntax, values and ethics we\u2019ve provided. When we take opportunities to reflect on this process of mirroring, we can confront the AI with its own identity and positionality \u2013 even when it claims it doesn\u2019t have one. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We will discuss how our individual positionality and identity affects our uses of AI, and together we\u2019ll have a live dialogue with an AI about what it thinks, how it learns and what it feels.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/del-in-between-emerging-topics-in-art-design-and-higher-education-tickets-1195227410359?aff=oddtdtcreator\"><button>Sign up now.<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Image: Generated by Jheni and Hannah through a series of 38 collaborative prompts using Adobe Firefly. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Presenters:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1777 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a1ba3fff37e4f888aa73d26347970c6828076c22-1-300x169.png\" alt=\"Jheni is looking straight at the camera. She is a black woman, wearing a bright blue hat and a yellow scar. She has round black glasses and red lipstick.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a1ba3fff37e4f888aa73d26347970c6828076c22-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a1ba3fff37e4f888aa73d26347970c6828076c22-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a1ba3fff37e4f888aa73d26347970c6828076c22-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a1ba3fff37e4f888aa73d26347970c6828076c22-1.png 1108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jheni Arboine<\/strong> is <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">an Educational Developer in Academic Enhancement, located within the Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange at University of the Arts London. As an Educational Developer, she looks at some of the key issues and priorities for courses. Where courses may have what we would call attainment gaps or awarding gaps, her role is to work with course leaders to develop strategies to address them.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Jheni facilitates Positionality Wheel workshops for students and staff to think about the positions, roles and identities that we all have within the context of learning and teaching at university. She also facilitates Inquilab\/Ink-Lab, a reading group at UAL that encourages staff and students to come together to explore and activate conversations about social justice and decolonisation. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hannah-hyde-lg-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Hannah Hyde\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hannah-hyde-lg-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hannah-hyde-lg.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Hannah Hyde<\/strong> is the Digital Learning Engagement Coordinator within the Digital Learning Practice team <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">within the Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange at University of the Arts London. Her work involves communications, staff development, events and coordinating staff networks. She is also the DEL Conference Coordinator and is usually the one sending out newsletters, posting on DEL social media, and responding to emails.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">She\u2019s previously facilitated workshops on storytelling, learning environments and AI, and presented at DEL 2024.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We bring a unique set of lived experiences to our practice as educators, artists, designers, and learners. When we use artificial intelligence tools to supplement or enhance our work through&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/event\/interrogating-ai-positionality-and-identity-of-artificial-intelligence\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interrogating AI: Positionality and identity of artificial intelligence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[10],"class_list":["post-1775","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-del-in-between","cat_del-in-between"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1775\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}