Diversity and AI-Assisted Decision-Making:Can Diversity Help Reduce Bias?

Xiaoya Zhou

doi:10.47297/taposatWSP2633-456913.20260707

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Diversity and AI-Assisted Decision-Making:Can Diversity Help Reduce Bias?

Volume 7, Issue 7

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Diversity and AI-Assisted Decision-Making:Can Diversity Help Reduce Bias?
Diversity and AI-Assisted Decision-Making:Can Diversity Help Reduce Bias?
Queen Mary University of London, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215028, China
Vol. 7, Issue 7, Pages: 71-75(2026)
Online First：21 August 2026，

Published：30 July 2026
DOI：10.47297/taposatWSP2633-456913.20260707
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Zhou Xiaoya.Diversity and AI-Assisted Decision-Making:Can Diversity Help Reduce Bias?[J].Theory and Practice of Science and Technology,2026,07(07):71-75.
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Zhou Xiaoya.Diversity and AI-Assisted Decision-Making:Can Diversity Help Reduce Bias?[J].Theory and Practice of Science and Technology,2026,07(07):71-75. DOI： 10.47297/taposatWSP2633-456913.20260707.

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Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to support decisions in recruitment

healthcare

finance and public services. Although these systems are often presented as neutral and efficient

they can reproduce unfair patterns when training data

target variables and review processes are weak. This paper asks whether diversity can help reduce bias in AI-assisted decision-making. It argues that diversity is not a simple technical fix

but it can reduce bias indirectly when diverse participants have enough information and authority to influence design

testing and deployment. The paper uses a concise literature review

two case studies and an illustrative secondary-data analysis based on a preliminary student presentation dataset of 60 observations. The empirical section reports a preliminary logistic regression in which a higher diversity index is associated with a lower probability of a reported AI bias event. This result is treated as exploratory rather than causal. The Amazon recruitment AI case shows how historical data and weak review can reproduce gender bias

while the Google diabetic-retinopathy AI case shows how professional and local participation can improve deployment review in healthcare. Overall

the paper finds that diversity helps mainly by making bias easier to detect

making AI outputs easier to question

and making correction more likely through governance and feedback.

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