Linguistic Triggers of Gender and Racial Bias in Open-Weight LLMs Applied to Recruitment

arXiv:2609.18106 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-09-16 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-16

Comments: Accepted at the 9th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2026). Extended version with Appendices A-B (prompt templates and full stimulus set)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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