LLMs Silently Correct African American English: Auditing and Mitigating Dialect Bias via Activation Steering

arXiv:2607.06845 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-07-07 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-07-07

Updated: 2026-10-12

Terminology

• Activation Steering — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Steering — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• African American English — 2× in this paper
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Standard American English — 1× in this paper

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