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most citedSemantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases

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cs.CY2023★ 1 cited

Is the U.S. Legal System Ready for AI's Challenges to Human Values?

Inyoung Cheong, Aylin Caliskan, Tadayoshi Kohno

Our interdisciplinary study investigates how effectively U.S. laws confront the challenges posed by Generative AI to human values. Through an analysis of diverse hypothetical scena…

cs.CY2023★ 19 cited

Evaluating Biased Attitude Associations of Language Models in an Intersectional Context

Shiva Omrani Sabbaghi, Robert Wolfe, Aylin Caliskan

Language models are trained on large-scale corpora that embed implicit biases documented in psychology. Valence associations (pleasantness/unpleasantness) of social groups determin…

cs.CY2023★ 52 cited

Bias Against 93 Stigmatized Groups in Masked Language Models and Downstream Sentiment Classification Tasks

Katelyn X. Mei, Sonia Fereidooni, Aylin Caliskan

The rapid deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) models demands a thorough investigation of biases and risks inherent in these models to understand their impact on individuals…

cs.CY2022★ 36 cited

Contrastive Language-Vision AI Models Pretrained on Web-Scraped Multimodal Data Exhibit Sexual Objectification Bias

Robert Wolfe, Yiwei Yang, Bill Howe +1

Nine language-vision AI models trained on web scrapes with the Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) objective are evaluated for evidence of a bias studied by psychologists…

cs.CY2022

American == White in Multimodal Language-and-Image AI

Robert Wolfe, Aylin Caliskan

Three state-of-the-art language-and-image AI models, CLIP, SLIP, and BLIP, are evaluated for evidence of a bias previously observed in social and experimental psychology: equating…

cs.CY2022★ 78 cited

Gender Bias in Word Embeddings: A Comprehensive Analysis of Frequency, Syntax, and Semantics

Aylin Caliskan, Pimparkar Parth Ajay, Tessa Charlesworth +2

The statistical regularities in language corpora encode well-known social biases into word embeddings. Here, we focus on gender to provide a comprehensive analysis of group-based b…

cs.CY2022★ 12 cited

Measuring Gender Bias in Word Embeddings of Gendered Languages Requires Disentangling Grammatical Gender Signals

Shiva Omrani Sabbaghi, Aylin Caliskan

Does the grammatical gender of a language interfere when measuring the semantic gender information captured by its word embeddings? A number of anomalous gender bias measurements i…

cs.CY2021

Low Frequency Names Exhibit Bias and Overfitting in Contextualizing Language Models

Robert Wolfe, Aylin Caliskan

We use a dataset of U.S. first names with labels based on predominant gender and racial group to examine the effect of training corpus frequency on tokenization, contextualization,…

cs.CY2020★ 157 cited

Image Representations Learned With Unsupervised Pre-Training Contain Human-like Biases

Ryan Steed, Aylin Caliskan

Recent advances in machine learning leverage massive datasets of unlabeled images from the web to learn general-purpose image representations for tasks from image classification to…

cs.CY2020★ 67 cited

Disparate Impact of Artificial Intelligence Bias in Ridehailing Economy's Price Discrimination Algorithms

Akshat Pandey, Aylin Caliskan

Ridehailing applications that collect mobility data from individuals to inform smart city planning predict each trip's fare pricing with automated algorithms that rely on artificia…

cs.CY2020★ 109 cited

Detecting Emergent Intersectional Biases: Contextualized Word Embeddings Contain a Distribution of Human-like Biases

Wei Guo, Aylin Caliskan

With the starting point that implicit human biases are reflected in the statistical regularities of language, it is possible to measure biases in English static word embeddings. St…

cs.CY2020★ 4 cited

ValNorm Quantifies Semantics to Reveal Consistent Valence Biases Across Languages and Over Centuries

Autumn Toney-Wails, Aylin Caliskan

Word embeddings learn implicit biases from linguistic regularities captured by word co-occurrence statistics. By extending methods that quantify human-like biases in word embedding…

cs.CY2020

Automatically Characterizing Targeted Information Operations Through Biases Present in Discourse on Twitter

Autumn Toney, Akshat Pandey, Wei Guo +2

This paper considers the problem of automatically characterizing overall attitudes and biases that may be associated with emerging information operations via artificial intelligenc…

cs.CY2020★ 2 cited

A Set of Distinct Facial Traits Learned by Machines Is Not Predictive of Appearance Bias in the Wild

Ryan Steed, Aylin Caliskan

Research in social psychology has shown that people's biased, subjective judgments about another's personality based solely on their appearance are not predictive of their actual p…