arXiv:2512.23889cs.CYcs.AI2025-12被引 1

大模型系统性扭曲美国公众气候观点,尤其在跨身份群体上存在偏差。

How Large Language Models Systematically Misrepresent American Climate Opinions

  • 用真实调查数据对比大模型生成的气候观点,发现其压缩了意见多样性。
  • 模型将低关切群体预测为更关心,高关切群体则被低估。
  • 对非裔美国人性别差异的误判,可能影响公平气候治理。

联邦机构和研究人员越来越多地使用大语言模型分析和模拟公众意见。当人工智能介于公众与政策制定者之间时,跨身份群体的准确性至关重要;不准确的群体估计可能误导宣传、咨询和政策设计。尽管已有研究探讨大模型输出中的交叉性问题,但很少有研究将这些输出与真实人类回应在多重身份上的表现进行对比。气候变化是此类领域的关键议题,且当前意见分歧明显,亟需准确理解。本研究探究大模型如何呈现美国公众在气候问题上的人口与交叉性特征。我们向六种大模型提供了来自全国代表性美国气候意见调查中978名受访者的个人资料,并就20个问题比较了AI生成回答与实际人类回答的差异。结果发现,大模型似乎压缩了美国公众气候观点的多样性,将低关切群体预测为更关切,反之亦然。这种压缩具有交叉性:模型对白人和西班牙裔美国人的性别假设符合现实,但可能误判非裔美国人,因实际性别模式存在差异。这些模式在常规审计方法中可能难以察觉,却可能损害气候治理的公平性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Federal agencies and researchers increasingly use large language models to analyze and simulate public opinion. When AI mediates between the public and policymakers, accuracy across intersecting identities becomes consequential; inaccurate group-level estimates may mislead outreach, consultation, and policy design. While research examines intersectionality in LLM outputs, few studies have compared these outputs against real human responses across intersecting identities. Climate policy is one such domain, and this is particularly urgent for climate change, where opinion is contested and diverse. We investigate how LLMs represent demographic and intersectional patterns in U.S. climate opinions. We prompted six LLMs with profiles of 978 respondents from a nationally representative U.S. climate opinion survey and compared AI-generated responses to actual human answers across 20 questions. We find that LLMs appear to compress the diversity of American climate opinions, predicting less-concerned groups as more concerned and vice versa. This compression is intersectional: LLMs appear to apply uniform gender assumptions that match reality for White and Hispanic Americans but may misrepresent Black Americans, where actual gender patterns differ. These patterns, which may be invisible to standard auditing approaches, could undermine equitable climate governance.

大模型偏差气候政策交叉性公众意见

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