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LLM Jurors Show Bias Based on Defendant Statements and Backgrounds

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A new benchmark called JuryBench has been developed to study how LLM-simulated jurors are influenced by defendant statements in U.S. criminal law cases. The research analyzed over 432,000 decisions from 20 frontier LLMs, finding that emotional persuasion can negatively impact perceived guilt, and that background affinity between defendants and jurors is a significant factor in sentencing. Ideology also plays a strong role in shaping severity judgments, highlighting both the potential and risks of using LLMs to model jury reasoning. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential biases in LLM-simulated legal decision-making, informing the development of fairer AI systems.

RANK_REASON Academic paper introducing a new benchmark and analysis of LLM behavior. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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LLM Jurors Show Bias Based on Defendant Statements and Backgrounds

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Cho-Ying Wu ·

    When Does Defendant Statement Matter? A Study of Bias and Persuasion in LLM-Simulated Jurors

    arXiv:2609.09887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs have been used to simulate human decision-making in professional settings, yet their behaviors in common-law jury trials remain unexplored. We study when and how a defendant's courtroom statement affects LLM-simulated jurors, f…

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