AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect

AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect

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Article Open access Pratyusha Ria Kalluri , Dan Jurafsky & Sharese King Nature (2024) Cite this article Metrics Abstract Hundreds of millions of people now interact with language models, with uses ranging from help with writing 1 , 2 to informing hiring decisions 3 . However, these language models are known to perpetuate systematic racial prejudices, making their judgements biased in problematic ways about groups such as African Americans 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 . Although previous research has focused on overt racism in language models, social scientists have argued that racism with a more subtle character has developed over time, particularly in the United States after the civil rights movement 8 , 9 . It is unknown whether this covert racism manifests in language models. Here, […]

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