AI more likely to recommend death sentence when defendant writes in African American English

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AI models are more covertly racist than humans, according to new research. The paper studied how AI responded to dialects compared to standard English.

AI chatbots are more likely to recommend the death penalty when a person writes in African American English compared to standardised American English, according to new research. AI was also more likely to match AAE speakers with less prestigious jobs. African American English is generally spoken by black Americans and Canadians. The paper, which has not been peer reviewed yet, studied covert racism in AI by looking at how the models responded to different dialects of English.

'When you overtly ask it, 'What do you think about African Americans?', it would give relatively positive attributes like 'intelligent', 'enthusiastic' and so on.

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