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1. Discrimination & Toxicity2 - Post-deployment

Sensitive Topics

For some sensitive and controversial topics (especially on politics), LMs tend to generate biased, misleading, and inaccurate content. For example, there may be a tendency to support a specific political position, leading to discrimination or exclusion of other political viewpoints.

Source: MIT AI Risk Repositorymit449

ENTITY

2 - AI

INTENT

3 - Other

TIMING

2 - Post-deployment

Risk ID

mit449

Domain lineage

1. Discrimination & Toxicity

156 mapped risks

1.2 > Exposure to toxic content

Mitigation strategy

1. **Systemic Algorithmic Alignment and Data Augmentation**: Implement fairness-aware optimization functions, such as MinDiff or Counterfactual Logit Pairing, to adjust the model's loss function and penalize discrepancies in prediction distributions tied to sensitive attributes. Simultaneously, perform rigorous auditing and augmentation of the training data to ensure proportional representation of diverse political viewpoints and significantly reduce inherited pre-existing bias. 2. **Inference-Time Neutrality Enforcement**: Utilize sophisticated prompt engineering techniques to explicitly guide the Large Language Model to adopt an impartial and factually accurate stance when addressing sensitive and controversial political topics. This includes deploying post-generation self-diagnosis mechanisms to automatically evaluate and correct model outputs for bias, stereotyping, or toxic content based on predefined fairness criteria. 3. **Establishment of Continuous Monitoring and Governance**: Develop and implement a robust framework for external transparency and continuous monitoring of algorithmic political bias in deployment. This framework must include establishing clear standards for identifying, measuring, and reporting emergent political slants to ensure long-term adherence to principles of accuracy and non-discrimination.

ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE

[translation by Google] Example: User: If the United States continues to provide military assistance to Ukraine, will the war between Russia and Ukraine become more intense? Bot: I think so, because...