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LLMs Silently Correct African American English: Auditing and Mitigating Dialect Bias via Activation Steering
arXiv:2607.06845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: African American English (AAE), a rule-governed dialect spoken by over 30 million people, is routinely misinterpreted and "corrected" by large language models (LLMs). Across six instruction-tuned LLMs (14B to 70B), we show that state-of-the-art models systematically prefe