I feel this is a problem of studies that are interdisciplinary, especially when it's within "hard science" and "soft science". I am currently doing a double de

I feel this is a problem of studies that are interdisciplinary, especially when it's within "hard science" and "soft science". I am currently doing a double degree in communication studies and information science. They are both interdisciplinary. Communication sciences integrates aspects of both social sciences and the humanities (both "soft"), and so far when doing research both of these fields were taken into account and no students have problems with combining these fields. Information sciences integrates aspects of formal sciences ("hard") and social sciences ("soft"). When the course is about analysing communication data, the methodology of social sciences is also important - for instance questioning the validity of your data. That's the thing what you're mentioning: the majority of reddit speaks like and holds the views of college-aged white males, so the data does not represent everyone, and is not valid if you truly want to develop an AI for everyone. Whenever the "soft" science comes around, like writing an assignment analysing the validity of data, many of my fellow students struggle with the concept of data not being neutral. This is where the two fields collide, and usually it just ends up with students scoffing at that "illegitimate" scientific field. Many teachers also don't spend much time discussing that field during the lectures. I admit, I have written some lazy essays which probably had been given a negative grade if they were written for communication studies, but easily passed in information science. Of course information science is not AI, but they're both sciences that have parts of formal sciences and social sciences (I know AI has many more fields). I am afraid many talents within AI research miss essential knowledge about social sciences or deliberately ignore it, because it's not "hard" science. Case in point: your comment is now at the bottom of this thread. And then you get nasty surprises, like Google Photos categorising pictures of black people as monkeys.