Liberals are ideologically more sympathetic to state-subsidized...
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Liberals are ideologically more sympathetic to state-subsidized institutions. So, they're more likely to become university professors and feel more comfortable surrounded by progressives. They're also more likely to get jobs/grants/tenure as the committees that make such decisions are staffed by progressives. A UCLA HERI survey (up to 2017) found about 60% of faculty identified as liberal/far‑left, 28% as moderate, and 12% as conservative/far‑right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_issues_in_higher_education_in_the_United_States . A study analyzing 8,688 tenure‑track professors across departments in elite liberal arts colleges found 78.2% of academic departments had either zero Republicans, or so few as to make no difference https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/homogenous_the_political_affiliations_of_elite_liberal_arts_college_faculty Research is highly prone to bias; it's easy design an experiment that favors the outcome the researcher wants to see. For example, in surveys, changing how a question is asked, the order in which it is asked, etc can all be manipulated to tilt the outcome in favor of the survey designer. If everyone on staff shares the same ideology, they may not be able to see the bias (even if they're trying to be fair). AI's are trained on the papers that come out of this mileu, so they'll reflect that bias.