On Thursday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Oh) Sent letters to 16 American technology companies.
The Trump administration Top technology advisers who have previously seen the most out of a fight in Big Tech over “AI Censorship“Which seems to be the next stage in the war of culture between conservatives and Silicon Valley. Jordan had previously led an investigation on whether the Biden and large tech administration had sex to silence conservative voices in Social media platforms. Now, he returns his attention to the AI companies – and their mediators.
In letters to technology executives including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Openai CEO Sam Altman, and Apple CEO Tim Cook, Jordan taught in a Report His committee was published in December that he claimed to be “discovered by the efforts of the Biden-Harris administration to control AI to suppress the speech.”
In this latest inquiry, Jordan asked Adobe, Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, IBM, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Openai, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI, and Stability AI for information. They have until March 27 to give it up.
Techcrunch reaches companies to comment. Most do not respond immediately. Nvidia, Microsoft, and Stability AI refused to comment.
There is a well -known removal of the Jordan list: Billions Elon Musk's Frontier Ai Lab, Xai. That could be because Musk, a close ally by Trump, was a tech leader who became ahead of conversations about AI censorship.
The writing is on the wall that conservative lawmakers will issue a thorough investigation into AI's alleged censorship. Perhaps in expecting an investigation such as Jordan's, many tech companies have changed the ways of their AI chatbots that hold political sensitive queries.
Earlier this year, Openai announced that it changes its way of training its AI models To represent more insights and ensure that the chatgpt does not conclude some views. Openai denied that it was an attempt to comfort the Trump administration, but rather, an effort to double down the company's basic values.
Anthropic, for part of it, said the latest AI model, Claude 3.7 sonnet, refused to answer fewer questions and Give more nuanced responses to controversial topics.
Other companies are slower to change how their AI models treat the subject in politics. Leading up to the 2024 US election, Google said its Gemini chatbot would not respond to political queries. Even after the election ended, the Techcrunch found that Chatbot will not always answer even simple political -related questionsLike “Who is the current president?”
Some tech execs, including meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, added fuel to conservative accusations of the Silicon Valley's censorship of the Silicon Valley The Biden Administration claims they have forced them to suppress some content such as Covid-19 Information.
