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AI tools show biases in ranking job applicants’ names according to perceived race and gender
ÏãÃÛÓ°ÊÓ researchers found significant racial, gender and intersectional bias in how three state-of-the-art large language models ranked resumes. The models favored white-associated names 85% of the time, female-associated names only 11% of the time, and never favored Black male-associated names over white male-associated names.
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