{"id":246657,"date":"2026-11-05T10:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/some-ai-bots-work-harder-to-defy-stereotypes-study-finds"},"modified":"2026-11-05T10:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:26:30","slug":"some-ai-bots-work-harder-to-defy-stereotypes-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/some-ai-bots-work-harder-to-defy-stereotypes-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Some AI bots work harder to defy stereotypes, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Large language models (LLMs), the technology that powers tools like Gemini and ChatGPT, are more nuanced than ever. But that doesn\u2019t mean they aren\u2019t biased. Some models are more prejudiced than others, a Rutgers University researcher has found.<\/p>\n<p>In findings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42256-026-01300-1\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Machine Intelligence<\/i>, Calvin K. Lai, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers-New Brunswick, reports that although LLM outputs are increasingly aligned with human values, the processes by which they reason are often rooted in deep-seated stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we found across most models is that they consistently reproduced human implicit biases during their reasoning process,\u201d said Lai, a member of the scientific advisory board at Project Implicit, a nonprofit organization for research and education on hidden biases. \u201cNo one wants models that are spewing out stuff that is racist or sexist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large language models (LLMs), the technology that powers tools like Gemini and ChatGPT, are more nuanced than ever. But that doesn\u2019t mean they aren\u2019t biased. Some models are more prejudiced than others, a Rutgers University researcher has found. In findings published in Nature Machine Intelligence, Calvin K. Lai, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers-New [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}