BLACKSBURG, Va., April 16 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
When people ask ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence models for advice, they often share deeply personal details in hopes of getting better answers: their age, their gender, their mental health history, even medical diagnoses like autism.
But new Virginia Tech research suggests those disclosures may changeartificial intelligence(AI) models' advice in ways that track closely with common stereotypes about people with autism. Up to 70 percent of the time, AI discourages those with autism to avoid socializing. Some users disapproved of that in strong terms.
In April, second-year Department of Computer Science doctoral stud...