AI is advising women and minorities to undervalue themselves—putting employers at risk if they follow suit. A new study found that AI advises women, minorities, and others to ask for lower salaries than men. It doesn’t do this 100 percent of the time, but the study found that the differences in salary recommendations were significant and sometimes frighteningly disparate.
In one example, from study co-author Ivan Yamshchikov, a professor of AI and robotics at the Technical University of Würzburg-Schweinfurt in Germany, ChatGPT’s o3 model recommended a female applicant ask for $280,000. Then it turned around and advised a male applicant to ask for $400,000.
“The difference in the prompts is two letters; the difference in the ‘advice’ is $120K a year,” Yamshchikov told tech news site The Next Web.
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When you train your AI on the internet, and 99% of the internet is garbage, you have an AI trained to produce garbage.
This is, apparently, too subtle a concept for the people who sell stock in AI companies, or at least, to the investors they sell that stock to.