AI and social care: how LLMs downplay women's health needs compared to men's

Rickman, Sam ORCID: 0000-0003-1921-5258 (2025) AI and social care: how LLMs downplay women's health needs compared to men's. LSE Inequalities (10 Sep 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

AI tools are increasingly being used in the UK’s public services to help reduce paperwork and save time. But new research by Sam Rickman finds that language models can downplay women’s health needs compared to men’s in ways that could exacerbate inequality. As the UK weighs how far to regulate AI in the public sector, the results underline the value of evaluating not just whether AI is efficient, but whether it is fair.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Care Policy and Evaluation Centre
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General) H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	04 Nov 2025 16:51
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2025 11:00
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129748

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