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LLMs show implicit bias against people with intellectual disabilities, study finds

A new study published on arXiv investigated implicit biases in several large language models (LLMs) concerning individuals with intellectual disabilities. Researchers used GPT-4 Turbo to generate stories based on prompts with and without ID descriptors, a process repeated with GPT-4o, Meta Llama-3-3-70B-Instruct, Anthropic Claude-3-5-Sonnet, and Mistral Large 2411. Analysis of the generated stories revealed that LLMs tend to represent people with intellectual disabilities in ways that suggest negative implicit biases, such as portraying them as younger, more dependent, or inspirational, and exhibiting hesitation in their inclusion. AI

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LLMs show implicit bias against people with intellectual disabilities, study finds

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Karly V. Coffey, Gloria L. Krahn, John P. Hanley, Jacob E. Neely ·

    Identifying Implicit Bias in LLM-based Chat AI Toward People with Intellectual Disabilities

    arXiv:2607.26062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: This work investigates the presence of implicit bias in Large Language Model (LLM)-based chat AI models directed toward people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Objective: The study aims to identify and measure repr…