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

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.