It's only fair when I think it's fair: How Gender Bias Alignment Undermines Distributive Fairness in Human-AI Collaboration

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Autores principales: Zipperling, Domenique, Deck, Luca, Lanzl, Julia, Kühl, Niklas
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Publicado: 2025
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author Zipperling, Domenique
Deck, Luca
Lanzl, Julia
Kühl, Niklas
author_facet Zipperling, Domenique
Deck, Luca
Lanzl, Julia
Kühl, Niklas
contents Human-AI collaboration is increasingly relevant in consequential areas where AI recommendations support human discretion. However, human-AI teams' effectiveness, capability, and fairness highly depend on human perceptions of AI. Positive fairness perceptions have been shown to foster trust and acceptance of AI recommendations. Yet, work on confirmation bias highlights that humans selectively adhere to AI recommendations that align with their expectations and beliefs -- despite not being necessarily correct or fair. This raises the question whether confirmation bias also transfers to the alignment of gender bias between human and AI decisions. In our study, we examine how gender bias alignment influences fairness perceptions and reliance. The results of a 2x2 between-subject study highlight the connection between gender bias alignment, fairness perceptions, and reliance, demonstrating that merely constructing a ``formally fair'' AI system is insufficient for optimal human-AI collaboration; ultimately, AI recommendations will likely be overridden if biases do not align.
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spellingShingle It's only fair when I think it's fair: How Gender Bias Alignment Undermines Distributive Fairness in Human-AI Collaboration
Zipperling, Domenique
Deck, Luca
Lanzl, Julia
Kühl, Niklas
Human-Computer Interaction
Human-AI collaboration is increasingly relevant in consequential areas where AI recommendations support human discretion. However, human-AI teams' effectiveness, capability, and fairness highly depend on human perceptions of AI. Positive fairness perceptions have been shown to foster trust and acceptance of AI recommendations. Yet, work on confirmation bias highlights that humans selectively adhere to AI recommendations that align with their expectations and beliefs -- despite not being necessarily correct or fair. This raises the question whether confirmation bias also transfers to the alignment of gender bias between human and AI decisions. In our study, we examine how gender bias alignment influences fairness perceptions and reliance. The results of a 2x2 between-subject study highlight the connection between gender bias alignment, fairness perceptions, and reliance, demonstrating that merely constructing a ``formally fair'' AI system is insufficient for optimal human-AI collaboration; ultimately, AI recommendations will likely be overridden if biases do not align.
title It's only fair when I think it's fair: How Gender Bias Alignment Undermines Distributive Fairness in Human-AI Collaboration
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10661