AI & Politics

From Faces to Politics: Vision-Language Models (Sometimes) Link Visual Demographic Characteristics to Ideological Labels featured image

From Faces to Politics: Vision-Language Models (Sometimes) Link Visual Demographic Characteristics to Ideological Labels

PA · 2026

When AI models look at a political campaign photo, do they make assumptions about the candidate's ideology based on race or gender — even when the ad itself is completely neutral? …

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Soyeon Jeon
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Visual Cues of Gender and Race are Associated with Stereotyping in Vision-Language Models featured image

Visual Cues of Gender and Race are Associated with Stereotyping in Vision-Language Models

Working Paper · 2026

Examines how vision-language models respond to visual cues of gender and race, documenting systematic associations between demographic features in images and stereotyped outputs. …

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Messi H.J. Lee
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Measuring Google AI Overviews: Activation, Source Quality, Claim Fidelity, and Publisher Impact featured image

Measuring Google AI Overviews: Activation, Source Quality, Claim Fidelity, and Publisher Impact

IMC 2026 · 2026

A large-scale longitudinal study issuing 55,393 trending queries to Google over 40 days to measure when AI Overviews activate, how credible their sources are, how faithfully they …

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Haofei Xu
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Large Language Models Portray Socially Subordinate Groups as More Homogeneous, Consistent with a Bias Observed in Humans featured image

Large Language Models Portray Socially Subordinate Groups as More Homogeneous, Consistent with a Bias Observed in Humans

FAccT · 2024

Psychologists have long known that people tend to perceive minority and marginalized groups as more uniform and interchangeable than dominant groups — a phenomenon called …

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Messi H.J. Lee
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America's Racial Framework of Superiority and Americanness Embedded in Natural Language featured image

America's Racial Framework of Superiority and Americanness Embedded in Natural Language

PNAS Nexus · 2024

Uses computational analysis of large language corpora to uncover racial hierarchies embedded in American English. The study reveals systematic associations between race, perceived …

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