AI also had a higher tendency to pair news speakers with less esteemed positions. Black Americans and Canadians speak African American English in general.
The study, which has not yet undergone peer review, examined how AI models reacted to various English dialects in order to investigate latent racism.
The majority of studies on AI racism have concentrated on overt racism, such as the way an AI chatbot reacts when it hears the term “black.”
One of the paper’s authors, Valentin Hofmann, told News that “African American English as a dialect triggers racism in language models that is more negative than any human stereotypes about African Americans ever experimentally reported.”
