The ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) 2025 is being hosted in Athens, Greece from June 23 - 26. We’re excited to share all the work from SAIL that’s being presented, and you’ll find links to the papers below. Feel free to reach out to the contact authors directly to learn more about the work that’s happening at Stanford!

List of Accepted Papers

Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers

Authors: Jared Moore, Declan Grabb, Kevin Klyman, William Agnew, Stevie Chancellor, Desmond C. Ong, Nick Haber
Contact: jlcmoore@stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Blog Post | Website
Keywords: mental health, therapy, large language models, chatbots


From tools to thieves: Measuring and understanding public perceptions of AI through crowdsourced metaphors

Authors: Myra Cheng*, Angela Y. Lee*, Kristina Rapuano, Kate Niederhoffer, Alex Liebscher, Jeffrey Hancock
Contact: myra1@stanford.edu
Links: Paper
Keywords: metaphors, perceptions of ai, demographic differences in perceptions, public perceptions


Identities are not Interchangeable: The Problem of Overgeneralization in Fair Machine Learning

Authors: Angelina Wang
Contact: angelina.wang@stanford.edu
Links: Paper
Keywords: machine learning fairness, discrimination, context specificity, social identities


Measuring Machine Learning Harms from Stereotypes Requires Understanding Who Is Harmed by Which Errors in What Ways

Authors: Angelina Wang, Xuechunzi Bai, Solon Barocas, Su Lin Blodgett
Contact: angelina.wang@stanford.edu
Links: Paper
Keywords: stereotypes, machine learning fairness, harms from biases


Not Like Us, Hunty: Measuring Perceptions and Behavioral Effects of Minoritized Anthropomorphic Cues in LLMs

Authors: Jeffrey Basoah, Daniel Chechelnitsky, Tao Long, Katharina Reinecke, Chrysoula Zerva, Kaitlyn Zhou, Mark Díaz, Maarten Sap
Contact: dchechel@andrew.cmu.edu
Links: Paper
Keywords: natural language processing, linguistics, large language models, sociolect, user perception, user behavior, reliance, anthropomorphization, african american english, queer slang


We look forward to seeing you at FAccT!