AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect
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 4–7 . 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
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Published: 28 August 2024
Source: OpenAlex
Category: Research
Topics: Bias & fairness
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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