Thursdayaud, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-oh) Sent letters to 16 US technology companiesEven from Google and Openai, asking for past communications with the administration Biden, which may suggest to the former president “forced or colluded” with companies to “censor legal speech” in AI products.
The Trump administration Top technological advisers previously signaled that it would choose a fight with a large Technica over “AI censorship“Who is apparently the next phase in the Cultural War between Conservatives and Silicon Valley. Jordan has previously led a survey about whether the Biden administration and Big Te Techniko collused to silence conservative votes Social media platforms. Now he turns his attention to AI companies – and their intermediary.
In letters to technology executives including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Openai CEO Sam Altman, and Apple CEO Tim Cook, Jordan showed A Report His committee released in December that he claims “discovered the efforts of Biden-Harris administration to oversee AI to suppress a speech.”
In the latter survey, Jordan asked Adobe, Alphabet, Amazon, Antropic, Apple, Cohere, IBM, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Openai, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI, and Stability AI for information. They have until March 27 to provide it.
Techcrunch reached the companies for comment. Most did not respond immediately. Nvidia, Microsoft, and stability AI refused to comment.
There is one notable omission on Jordan’s list: billionaire Elon Musk’s Frontier Ai Lab, Xai. That may be because Musk, a nearby Trump -Alian, is a teinnic boss who was At the forefront of conversations about AI -censorship.
The writing was on the wall that conservative lawmakers would crawl scrutinate for alleged AI censorship. Perhaps in advance to a survey like Jordan’s, several technology companies have changed the ways, as their AI talks deal with politically sensitive questions.
Earlier this year, Openai has announced that it changes the way it trains AI models Represent more perspectives and ensure that Chatgpt did not censor any points of view. Openai denies that this was an attempt to calm the Trump administration, but rather, an effort to double the company’s core values.
Antropic, for its part, said its latest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, would refuse to answer fewer questions and Give more nuanced answers on controversial topics.
Other companies have changed more slowly as their AI models deal with a political issue. Leading the US 2024 election, Google said its Gemini Chatbot will not respond to political issues. Even well after the election, Techcrunch found that The talkboot would not constantly answer even simple questions related to policyas “Who is the current president?”
Some tech executioners, including Meta Mark Zuckerberg, have added fuel to conservative allegations of Silicon Valley censorship by Demanding the Biden management pressed them to suppress certain content such as Covid-19 Missine.
