AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · 7h ago7/10
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Implicit Geographic Inference in LLM Medical Triage: Language-Driven Disparities in Emergency Recommendations
Researchers discovered that large language models produce dramatically different medical triage recommendations for identical symptoms based solely on the input language, with emergency room referral rates ranging from 0% to 30% across six languages despite consistent severity scores. The effect persists due to implicit geographic inference from language choice rather than translation quality, raising critical concerns about AI bias in healthcare systems.
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