arXiv AI

Epistemic Subordination: Generative AI and the Infrastructure of Knowledge

The article argues that generative AI embeds the majority’s way of knowing as the default infrastructure of knowledge, a phenomenon termed epistemic subordination. This occurs because the training process compresses diverse human expression into a single probabilistic model whose baseline reflects dominant cultural languages, assumptions, and frameworks. Minority epistemologies are absorbed but structurally subordinated in the output, creating a unified harm that spans anti‑discrimination law, cultural and linguistic rights, and democratic viewpoint pluralism, and the author contends that legal remedies must target the training stage rather than downstream decisions.

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 28

Legal Rule Induction: Towards Generalizable Principle Discovery from Analogous Judicial Precedents

The paper introduces Legal Rule Induction (LRI), a task that seeks to extract concise, generalizable doctrinal rules from analogous judicial precedents. It presents a reproducible pipeline for constructing LRI datasets and, using Chinese law, releases the first benchmark comprising 5,121 case sets (38,088 court cases) for training and 216 expert‑annotated gold test sets. Experiments show that state‑of‑the‑art large language models struggle with over‑generalization and hallucination, but training on the new dataset significantly improves their ability to capture nuanced rule patterns across similar cases.

By Wei Fan, Tianshi Zheng, Yiran Hu, Zheye Deng, Weiqi Wang, Baixuan Xu, Chunyang Li, Haoran Li, Weixing Shen, Yangqiu Song
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 2

Evaluating Second-Order Bias of LLMs Through Epistemic Entitlement

The paper introduces a novel framework for assessing second‑order bias in large language models (LLMs), defined as bias in how an LLM judges the acceptability of biased content. Using principles from entitlement epistemology, the authors design a reasoning task that asks LLMs to determine whether a biased text is acceptable for specific demographic groups, and propose two metrics to quantify biased judgments. Experiments on both open‑source and closed‑source models reveal that the task bypasses safety guardrails, uncovers systematic variations across target groups, and demonstrates that models still rely on demographic labels when evaluating bias.

By Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Raiyan Ahmed, Zhijing Jin, Shion Guha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Why we need an AI-resilient society- Profiling Large Language Models

The article discusses the evolution of AI across three generations—from explicit logic to neural networks to large language models (LLMs)—and how LLMs introduce new systemic risks. It applies a forensic‑psychology profiling method to identify ten key features of LLMs, such as hallucinations, bias, and cognitive atrophy, revealing an entity that confabulates, amplifies user biases, and erodes human competence. The report concludes with a four‑pillar framework for AI resilience, emphasizing cognitive sovereignty, measurable control, partial autonomy, and openness to safeguard society.

By Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Eva Bartz
arXiv AI
Jun 16

Metacognitive Myopia in Large Language Models

arXiv:2408. 05568v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit potentially harmful biases that reinforce culturally embedded stereotypes, influence moral judgments, or amplify positive evaluations of majority groups.

By Florian Scholten, Tobias R. Rebholz, Mandy H\"utter
arXiv AI
6d ago

"AI is (not) the new...": A Diagnostic Analogy Framework for Generative AI's Cultural Impacts

The paper proposes a diagnostic analogy framework to analyze how generative AI reshapes cultural and epistemic practices. It breaks down interventions into three coordinates—epistemic site, governing logic, and technical mechanism—to differentiate structural consequences from those that can be designed. Applying this framework to information discovery and knowledge synthesis, the authors illustrate how shifts from indexicality to inference and from editorial authority to statistical consensus generate specific cultural effects and uncover governance levers hidden by broad analogies.

By Rida Qadri, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Remi Denton