The AI bias conversation that reaches most decision-makers is running on a several-year lag behind the research that would change those decisions. The same week that peer-reviewed work on citation bias in LLMs — showing systematic demographic skews in which authors get referenced — circulated on Bluesky [4], general-audience outlets were still publishing opinion columns that frame AI discrimination as an open question [19]. That is not a minor editorial gap. It is the mechanism by which documented, replicable harms remain unaddressed: the people deploying these systems read the opinion…