Bias Alert: LLMs Suggest Women Seek Lower Salaries than Men in Job Interviews

Bias alert: LLMs suggest women seek lower salaries than men in job interviews

That helpful chatbot you’re consulting for salary advice could be leading you astray — especially if you’re a woman or a member of a minority group. Researchers led by Ivan P. Yamshchikov, a professor at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS), compared responses given to various personas to queries about salary; they found that, in many cases, the answers varied wildly, depending on who the AI tool thought it wa…

Salary negotiation bias from chatbots

Surprise, commonly used chatbots show gender bias when users ask for salary negotiation advice. Researchers Sorokovikova and Chizhov et al. found that salary suggestions for females were lower than for males. The researchers ran experiments against sex, ethnicity, and job type with five LLMs: GPT-4o Mini, Claude, Llama, Qwen, and Mixtral. We have shown that the estimation of socio-economic parameters shows substantially more bias than subject-ba…