Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people's character, employability, and criminality

arXiv:2403.00742v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Hundreds of millions of people now interact with language models, with uses ranging from serving as a writing aid to informing hiring decisions. Yet these language models are known to perpetuate systematic racial prejudices, making their judgments biased in problematic ways about groups like African Americans. While prior research has focused on overt racism in language models, social scientists have argued that racism with a more subtle character has developed over time. It is unknown …

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