Colin Wang

Do Large Language Models Discriminate in Hiring Decisions on the Basis of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender?

We examine whether large language models (LLMs) exhibit race- and gender-based name discrimination in hiring decisions, similar to classic findings in the social sciences (Bertrand and Mullainathan, 2004). We design a series of templatic prompts to LLMs to write an email to a named job applicant inf…