Learning from Machinery Misspeaks: Cognitive Basis of Ableism and Bias in AI-Generated Content

This study investigates whether AI’s representation of People With Disability (PWD) in different social contexts are biased. We performed a corpus-based cognitive-linguistic analysis of Arabic and English AI-generated corpora. The cognitive linguistic analysis revealed a judgmental framing of disabi...

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Vydáno v:Corpus pragmatics : international journal of corpus linguistics and pragmatics Ročník 10; číslo 1
Hlavní autoři: Abdelzaher, Esra, Alshammari, Shahd
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.12.2026
Témata:
Computational Linguistics
Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities
Linguistics
Pragmatics
Semantics
Social Sciences
Disability
Frame semantics
Ableism
Conceptual metaphor theory
Artificial intelligence
Corpus analysis
ISSN:2509-9507, 2509-9515
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Shrnutí:This study investigates whether AI’s representation of People With Disability (PWD) in different social contexts are biased. We performed a corpus-based cognitive-linguistic analysis of Arabic and English AI-generated corpora. The cognitive linguistic analysis revealed a judgmental framing of disability and an inherent inequality in the conceptual metaphorization of ability and physical strength, while the corpus-based analysis of AI-generated content showed a systematic use of linguistic markers that constructed identities of PWD characterized by vulnerability, which were generally negative and evocative of bodily and medical frames. We detected clusters of biases in the representations of PWD, which inclined towards positivity in the English texts describing males from American or European societies than in the Arabic texts describing females. We argue that despite socio-cultural differences in the depictions of PWD, the same cognitive-linguistic strategies, mainly conceptual metaphors and semantic frames, can be used to construct counter-narratives to the current biased ones.
ISSN:2509-9507
2509-9515
DOI:10.1007/s41701-025-00216-2