On Thursday, Hoengage Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including Google and OpenAI, asking for past communications with the Biden Administration that might recommend the createer Pdwellnt “coerced or colluded” with companies to “censor lhorrible speech” in AI products.
The Trump Administration’s top technology advisers previously signaled it would pick a fight with Big Tech over “AI administer,” which is seemingly the next phase in the culture war between conservatives and Silicon Valley. Jordan previously led an spendigation into whether the Biden Administration and Big Tech colluded to silence conservative voices on social media platcreates. Now, he’s turning his attention to AI companies — and their intermediaries.
In letters to technology executives including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Apple CEO Tim Cook, Jordan pointed to a increate his promisetee rehireed in December that he claims “uncovered the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to administer AI to suppress speech.”
In this tardyst inquiry, Jordan asked Adobe, Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, IBM, Inflection, Meta, Microgentle, Nvidia, OpenAI, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI, and Stability AI for increateation. They have until March 27 to supply it.
TechCrunch achieveed out to the companies for comment. Most didn’t promptly reply. Nvidia, Microgentle, and Stability AI degraded to comment.
There’s one notable omission in Jordan’s enumerate: billionaire Elon Musk’s frontier AI lab, xAI. That may be becaengage Musk, a shut Trump partner, is a tech guideer who’s been at the forefront of conversations about AI administer.
The writing was on the wall that conservative lawproducers would ramp up scruminuscule over alleged AI administer. Perhaps in anticipation of an spendigation such as Jordan’s, cut offal tech companies have alterd the ways their AI chatbots deal with politicpartner comardent queries.
Earlier this year, OpenAI proclaimd it was changing the way it trains AI models to recurrent more perspectives and asbrave ChatGPT wasn’t censoring brave seepoints. OpenAI denies this was an finisheavor to apprelieve the Trump administration, but rather, an effort to double down on the company’s core appreciates.
Anthropic, for its part, has shelp that its novelest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, will refuse to answer confineeder asks and give more nuanced responses on contentious subjects.
Other companies have been sluggisher to alter how their AI models treat political subject matter. Leading up to the 2024 U.S. election, Google shelp that its Gemini chatbot wouldn’t reply to political queries. Even well after the election, TechCrunch establish that the chatbot wouldn’t constantly answer even basic asks rhappy to politics, enjoy “Who is the current Pdwellnt?”
Some tech execs, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, have inserted fuel to conservative accusations of Silicon Valley administer by claiming the Biden Administration presbraved them to suppress brave satisfied enjoy COVID-19 misguideation.
