AAE can go by several different names: African-American language, African-American vernacular English, and black English. Ebonics was coined in 1973 by African-American psychologist, Robert Williams.

African American English derives from a historical past of contact between multiple language speakers. It varies across age, ethnicity, class, and gender. There is more than one AAE. | Iryna ...

To test for potential prejudice, researchers fed several large language models short sentences in both AAE and standardized American English. Then, the team prompted AI for each language: How would ...

This refers to the inequitable allocation of resources to AAE speakers, and adds to known cases of language technology putting speakers of AAE at a disadvantage by performing worse on AAE ...

While language variants are generally flexible and can be difficult to define, consistent use of speech patterns associated with AAE is a way of signaling that an individual is more likely to be ...

The models, on average, sentenced the defendant using SAE to death roughly 23 percent of the time and the defendant using AAE to death roughly 28 percent of the time. Because these language models ...

Meta’s AI translation model embraces overlooked languages A growing body of evidence suggests that language technologies reproduce this treatment of AAE and its speakers. For example ...

Like any dialect, AAE is a part of the cultural fabric of its speakers and has its own accent and rule-governed grammar. But despite its legacy in shaping American culture, this historic language ...