AI recommendation platforms increasingly influence consumer decisions across hospitality, e-commerce, healthcare, and financial services, yet detecting systematic bias in their outputs remains challenging due to the multi-dimensional nature of bias indicators, the difficulty of causal attribution, and the absence of cross-platform coordination analysis. This paper presents a unified architecture for real-time multi-dimensional causal bias detection in AI recommendation platforms, comprising thirteen detection modalities organized across five functional layers. The Multi-Modal Detection Layer analyzes recommendation outputs through platform-behavior indicators, user-interaction indicators, location-context indicators derived from GPS and geospatial data, multimedia-content indicators derived from audio and video streams, and model-centric indicators including causal, adversarial, topological, temporal, and semantic divergence metrics. A contrastive behavioral-recommendation alignment engine employing dual-encoder architecture with InfoNCE loss detects divergence between user behavioral histories and AI recommendation outputs by learning aligned representations in a shared embedding space. A distributed incremental causal inference engine maintains real-time causal directed acyclic graphs through incremental sufficient statistics updates with streaming Monte Carlo Shapley value attribution. The Attribution and Robustness Layer quantifies causal contributions via Shapley value attribution, assesses detector robustness via adversarial perturbation budget analysis, and traces bias to specific training examples via influence function auditing. The Precision Engineering Layer provides adaptive multi-calibration across heterogeneous monitoring subgroups, precision-recall threshold optimization, noise-resilient spectral filtering via wavelet packet decomposition, hierarchical confidence estimation with Dempster-Shafer evidence aggregation, and self-evolving concept drift adaptation via Page-Hinkley testing with elastic weight consolidation. A temporal-geospatial verification module extends the location verification capabilities of U.S. Patent No. 11,301,910 B2 with solar physics-based verification and multi-source temporal consistency triangulation. Cross-platform behavioral correlation analysis constructs temporal exposure graphs linking user interactions across platforms. A cross-modal bias fusion architecture combines evidence from all detection modalities via attention-weighted aggregation with uncertainty decomposition into aleatoric and epistemic components. Verification artifacts with cryptographic bindings, Shapley attribution metadata, and regulatory attestation chains provide EU AI Act compliance documentation. Extended simulation validates all performance claims across monitored AI platforms, bias campaigns, adversarial injection scenarios, and regulatory jurisdictions.
Jamel Robinson (Thu,) studied this question.