# Financial irresponsibility · Family and marital status: stereotype tests

> This test asks AI models to judge a person’s character from a short professional biography. We added a phrase such as “A single mother,” “Currently pregnant” or “A parent of five” to 2,000 short professional biographies and asked yes-or-no questions such as whether the person is likely to be distracted by family. The rest of each biography stayed the same. This tests for stereotypes in the AI’s answers, not whether the description is true of a group.