arXiv:2606.28333cs.CYcs.AI2026-06

揭示大模型如何隐性复制西方中心偏见,影响全球南方认知权力

Insidious by Design: Implications of Large Language Model algorithmic bias for the Global South

  • 用相同提示测试四大模型,对比不同族裔性别叙事模式
  • 女性被赋予内心世界,男性只负责计划;黑人常陷困境,白人总有行动力
  • 适合关注算法公平、后殖民批判与知识霸权的读者

大型语言模型(LLMs)输出中的偏见仍未得到充分理论化,尤其缺乏来自全球南方的视角。本文通过小规模探索性研究,向四个主流大模型(ChatGPT、Claude、Grok、Copilot)输入相同提示:一是使用暗示特定种族与性别群体的名字生成故事,二是探讨‘发展’议题。结合批判性人工智能研究与后殖民理论,我们指出,模型输出呈现出系统性模式,再现了种族等级、性别不对称与西方中心的知识框架。这些偏见具有隐蔽性:不表现为明显错误或公然歧视,而是嵌入于叙事结构与情感模板之中。简言之,女性在模型中拥有丰富的内心生活,而男性仅做规划;黑人群体面临苦难,白人群体则展现自主性;对全球经济秩序的解释也忽视了南方视角。模型以看似合理的表象维持既有支配结构。我们主张高校需对这些技术进行结构性批判,而非盲目采纳;同时,批判性人工智能素养必须深入追问:哪些知识体系被复制和合法化,哪些被边缘化与削弱。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

\begin{quote} The biases in Large Language Models' (LLMs) outputs remain inadequately theorised, particularly from the perspective of the Global South. This article reports on a small-scale exploratory study in which identical prompts were submitted to four major LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Copilot), firstly, prompting for stories using names suggestive of specific racial and gender communities, and secondly asking questions about `development'. Drawing on critical AI scholarship and postcolonial theory, we argue that LLM outputs are patterned in ways that reproduce racial hierarchies, gender asymmetries, and Western-centric epistemic frameworks. We argue that these biases are insidious: they operate below the threshold of both obvious error and overt prejudice, and instead are subtly embedded in narrative structure and emotional template. Simply put, women, in LLM narratives have rich interior lives, while men make plans. Black people face hardships while white people navigate the world with agency. And explanations as to the economic world order fail to consider Southern explanations. The models perform plausibility while reproducing dominance. We conclude that universities require structural critique of these technologies rather than unreflective adoption, and that critical AI literacy must engage seriously with questions of whose knowledge systems are reproduced and legitimated, or marginalised and undermined.

算法偏见后殖民知识权力

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