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LLMs show gender bias in medical triage, study finds

A new study published on arXiv reveals that large language models exhibit gender-based bias in medical triage recommendations. When presented with identical neurological symptoms, models like Gemini 3.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-5.4-mini assigned lower urgency to young women compared to age-matched men. This disparity stems from diagnostic substitution, where models favor gender-associated conditions, leading to less urgent care recommendations for female patients despite comparable symptom severity. AI

IMPACT Reveals critical biases in AI medical tools, necessitating careful design to avoid perpetuating health inequities.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing findings on LLM bias.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Qi Han Wong ·

    Gender-Dependent Diagnostic Substitution in LLM Medical Triage: Same Symptoms, Unequal Urgency

    arXiv:2606.03641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate whether large language models produce different medical triage recommendations for identical neurological symptoms when only the patient's stated gender and age vary. Using three model families--Gemini 3.5 Flash, Clau…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Qi Han Wong ·

    Gender-Dependent Diagnostic Substitution in LLM Medical Triage: Same Symptoms, Unequal Urgency

    We investigate whether large language models produce different medical triage recommendations for identical neurological symptoms when only the patient's stated gender and age vary. Using three model families--Gemini 3.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-5.4-mini--we present a st…