Researcher Finds That Some Bots Still Think in Stereotypes
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Rutgers psychologist Calvin Lai, writing with Messi H.J. Lee in Nature Machine Intelligence, adapted the Implicit Association Test to measure reasoning-token counts in five AI reasoning models. Most used more tokens on counter-stereotypical pairings, such as "Amy" with "executive," suggesting hidden stereotypes shape their reasoning.