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

34 citations · 35 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CL2026

Greater accessibility can amplify discrimination in generative AI

Carolin Holtermann, Minh Duc Bui, Kaitlyn Zhou +3

Hundreds of millions of people rely on large language models (LLMs) for education, work, and even healthcare. Yet these models are known to reproduce and amplify social biases pres…

cs.CL2026

Different Demographic Cues Yield Inconsistent Conclusions About LLM Personalization and Bias

Manuel Tonneau, Neil K. R. Sehgal, Niyati Malhotra +7

Demographic cue-based evaluation is widely used to study how large language models (LLMs) adapt their responses to signaled demographic attributes within and across groups. This ap…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Large Language Models Discriminate Against Speakers of German Dialects

Minh Duc Bui, Carolin Holtermann, Valentin Hofmann +2

Dialects represent a significant component of human culture and are found across all regions of the world. In Germany, more than 40% of the population speaks a regional dialect (Ad…

cs.CL2025

Aligned but Blind: Alignment Increases Implicit Bias by Reducing Awareness of Race

Lihao Sun, Chengzhi Mao, Valentin Hofmann +1

Although value-aligned language models (LMs) appear unbiased in explicit bias evaluations, they often exhibit stereotypes in implicit word association tasks, raising concerns about…

cs.CL2025

IssueBench: Millions of Realistic Prompts for Measuring Issue Bias in LLM Writing Assistance

Paul Röttger, Musashi Hinck, Valentin Hofmann +4

Large language models (LLMs) are helping millions of users write texts about diverse issues, and in doing so expose users to different ideas and perspectives. This creates concerns…

cs.CL2024★ 34 cited

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

Valentin Hofmann, Pratyusha Ria Kalluri, Dan Jurafsky +1

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…