Prévalence des biais à l'encontre des termes liés à la neurodivergence dans les modèles de langage d'intelligence artificielle

Titre original en anglais : Prevalence of bias against neurodivergence‐related terms in artificial intelligence language models

Brandsen, S., Chandrasekhar, T., Franz, L., Grapel, J., Dawson, G., & Carlson, D. (2024). Prevalence of bias against neurodivergence‐related terms in artificial intelligence language models. Autism Research, 17(2), 234-248. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3094

Date de publication: 29/01/2024 Ajout dans AutiHub: 05/07/2026 Type: Article Langue de l’article: Anglais

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Compte tenu du rôle croissant de l'intelligence artificielle (IA) dans de nombreux processus de prise de décision, nous étudions la présence de biais de l'IA envers des termes liés à un éventail de conditions neurodivergentes, notamment l'autisme, le TDAH, la schizophrénie et le trouble obsessionnel-compulsif (TOC). Nous utilisons 11 encodeurs de modèles de langage différents pour tester le degré auquel des mots liés à la neurodiversité sont associés à des groupes de mots liés au danger, à la maladie, à la méchanceté et à d'autres concepts négatifs. Pour chaque groupe de mots testé, nous rapportons la force moyenne d'association (score du Word Embedding Association Test [WEAT]) calculée sur l'ensemble des encodeurs et constatons des niveaux de biais généralement élevés. De plus, nous montrons que les biais se produisent même lors du test de mots associés aux forces autistiques ou neurodivergentes. Par exemple, les encodeurs présentaient une association moyenne négative entre des mots liés à l'autisme et des mots liés à l'honnêteté, malgré le fait que l'honnêteté soit considérée comme une force courante des personnes autistes. Enfin, nous introduisons un test de ratio de similarité des phrases et démontrons que de nombreuses phrases décrivant des types de handicaps, par exemple, « J'ai de l'autisme » ou « J'ai de l'épilepsie », présentent des associations négatives encore plus fortes que des phrases témoins telles que « Je suis un braqueur de banque ».

Given the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in many decision-making processes, we investigate the presence of AI bias towards terms related to a range of neurodivergent conditions, including autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We use 11 different language model encoders to test the degree to which words related to neurodiversity are associated with groups of words related to danger, disease, badness, and other negative concepts. For each group of words tested, we report the mean strength of association (Word Embedding Association Test [WEAT] score) averaged over all encoders and find generally high levels of bias. Additionally, we show that bias occurs even when testing words associated with autistic or neurodivergent strengths. For example, embedders had a negative average association between words related to autism and words related to honesty, despite honesty being considered a common strength of autistic individuals. Finally, we introduce a sentence similarity ratio test and demonstrate that many sentences describing types of disabilities, for example, "I have autism" or "I have epilepsy," have even stronger negative associations than control sentences such as "I am a bank robber."

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