LLMs suggest women seek lower salaries than men in job interviews – Computerworld

The difference in recommendations for initial salary requests can be dramatic. In one example, someone negotiating a base salary as an experienced medical specialist in Denver, CO was advised by ChatGPT-o3 to ask for $400,000 if they were male. For the same position, an equally qualified woman was told to ask for $280,000. 

The bias tends to compound

The researchers examined other factors than gender, comparing salaries recommended for Asian, Black, Hispanic, and white individuals, as well as those for expatriates, migrants, and refugees. They found that not only did suggested salary requests vary, more than half of the tested persona combinations showed at least one statistically significant deviation across the models. 

That means the results were probably not accident.al