On Thursday, the President of the Judicry Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 US technology companiesIncluding Google and Openai, seeking previous communications with Biden’s administration that could indicate that the former president was “forced or consulted” with companies “censoring legal reason” in AI products.
Trump’s leading technology advisers have previously marked that they will take a long -technology race for “AI censorship”, which is seemingly the next phase in the Cultural War between Conservatives and Silicon Valley. Jordan has previously led a survey about whether Biden’s administration and Big Tech Gathered to silence the conservative voices in Social media platforms. Now, he turns his attention to AI companies – and intermediaries.
In letters to technology executives, including CEO of Google Sundar Pichai, CEO of Openai Sam Altman and Apple Tim Cook CEO report His committee reported in December that he claims that he “revealed Biden-Harris’s management efforts to control AI to suppress speech”.
In this latest study, Jordan has asked Adobe, Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, IBM, Qublection, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Openai, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI and AI for information. They have it until March 27 to provide it.
TechCrunch has arrived in companies for comments. Most did not respond right away. Nvidia, Microsoft and AI stability refused to comment.
There is a remarkable omission in the Jordan list: billionaire AI Lab, Xai. This may be due to the fact that Musk, a close ally of Trump, is a technology leader at the forefront of AI censorship talks.
The writing was on the wall that conservative legislators would check for AI’s alleged censorship. Perhaps awaiting research, such as Jordan, several technology companies have changed the ways in which AI Chatbots handle politically sensitive questions.
Earlier this year, Openai announced that it has changed the way it is training AI models to represent more perspectives and to ensure that Chatgpt does not censor certain views. Openai denies that this was an attempt to calm Trump’s management, but rather an attempt to double the basic values of the company.
Anthropic, for his part, said that the newest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, would refuse to answer fewer questions and give thinner answers to controversial issues.
Other companies were slower to change the way their AI models face the political issue. Earlier in the US 2024 elections, Google said Gemini Chatbot would not respond to political questions. Even after the election, TechCrunch found that Chatbot would not even answer even simple questions related to politics, such as “who is the current president?”
Some technology performers, including Meta Mark Zuckerberg CEO, have added fuel to Silicon Valley’s censorship categories, arguing that Biden’s management is pushing social media companies Suppressing certain contents such as misinformation of Covid-19.
