Need or Reputation? Region, National Income, and Academic Status in LLM Gatekeeping Decisions

arXiv:2608.05178 · cs.CY, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-06-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.CY, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-06-27

Updated: 2026-10-10

Terminology

• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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