{
  "id": 14,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11292v1",
  "title": "The Paternalistic Filter: Epistemic Injustice and Differential Refusal in LLM-Mediated History Education for Marginalized Romanian Students",
  "summary": "As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as conversational tutors, they risk institutionalizing systemic inequalities. This study presents a systematic API audit of four LLMs acting as history tutors, evaluating 1,800 responses regarding the 1989 Romanian Revolution across five student personas varying by ethnicity and socio-economic tier. We uncover four interconnected patterns of \\emph{epistemic paternalism}: (1)~\\textbf{Differential Refusal}, where safety-aligned models block",
  "authors": "Alexis Popovici, Andrei Ionascu, Adrian-Marius Dumitran",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "children-education,transparency",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-13T09:10:19.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:15.663Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11292v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}