In plain words: Mixing human answers with AI answers and combining them by weighting each answer against its own local group keeps minority views alive. This blend cut bias and improved accuracy, while simply averaging AI answers made bias worse.
Abstract · Wisdom from Diversity: Bias Mitigation Through Hybrid Human-LLM Crowds
Despite their performance, large language models (LLMs) can inadvertently perpetuate biases found in the data they are trained on. By analyzing LLM responses to bias-eliciting headlines, we find that these models often mirror human biases. To address this, we explore crowd-based strategies for mitigating bias through response aggregation. We first demonstrate that simply averaging responses from multiple LLMs, intended to leverage the "wisdom of the crowd", can exacerbate existing biases due to the limited diversity within LLM crowds. In contrast, we show that locally weighted aggregation methods more effectively leverage the wisdom of the LLM crowd, achieving both bias mitigation and improved accuracy. Finally, recognizing the complementary strengths of LLMs (accuracy) and humans (diversity), we demonstrate that hybrid crowds containing both significantly enhance performance and further reduce biases across ethnic and gender-related contexts.
Axel Abels, Tom Lenaerts
arXiv:2505.12349 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY, cs.HC, cs.LG · submitted May 18, 2025
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2025)