The University of Chicago Chronicle

AI is biased against speakers of African American English, study finds

With each version of large language models like ChatGPT, developers have gotten better at filtering out racist content absorbed through sources like the internet. But researchers have discovered more ...
Black Enterprise

AI Shows Deep-Seated Bias Against African American Vernacular

A new study shows that large language models like ChatGPT have biases, including stereotypes against African American English speakers. As more research about artificial intelligence explores the ...
Nature

LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in a wide range of applications, from summarizing news articles to serving as study assistants in classroom settings 1, but emerging evidence ...
Los Angeles Times

Enhanced AI Speech Recognition of African American English (AAE)

Howard University and Google Research recently released data which can be used by artificial intelligence developers to improve the experience of Black people using automatic speech recognition (ASR) ...
The New York Times

‘African American’ Is Awkward. It’s Time to Use ‘Black.’

The linguist John McWhorter on how language around racial identity is evolving. By David Leonhardt and John McWhorter Produced by Jillian Weinberger In this episode of “The Opinions,” the linguist and ...