Republican Congressman Jim Jordan asks Big Tech if Biden tried to censor AI

Thursday House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) 16 American Technology Association has been sent to lettersAsked for past contact with the Biden administration, including Google and OpenAI, that may advise the former president to “force or alliance” to “legal speech censors” on AI products.

Trump administration Top Technology advisers previously indicated that it would fight “AI Sensorship” over Big Tech“Which is apparent in the next stage of the Culture War between the conservative and the Silicon Valley. Jordan led the investigation before About whether the biden administration and the big technology are involved in silence in conservative voices Social media platform. Now, he is focusing on AI companies – and their intermediaries.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Apple’s CEO Tim Cook pointed to Jordan in a letter of technology officials Report His committee was published in December that he claimed that “the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to control the AI ​​to suppress the speech.”

In this latest investigation, Jordan Adobe, Alphabet, Amazon, Ethnic, Apple, Quair, IBM, Influence, Meta, Microsoft, NVDia, OpenAEE, Palantia, Salesforce, Scale AI and Durability asked for information. They are up to March 27 to supply it.

TechCrunch has reached the organization for commenting. Most did not respond immediately. Nvidia, Microsoft and Stability AI refused to comment.

There is a significant drop in the list of Jordan: Billionaire Elon Mask Frontier AI Lab, Jai. This might be because Trump’s close ally Kasturi was a technology leader who was At the top of the conversation about AI censorshipThe

The article was on the wall that conservative lawmakers complained about the investigation because of the AI ​​censorship. In anticipation of an investigation like Jordan, probably a number of technology companies have changed their AI chattobs to manage politically sensitive questions.

Early this year, OpenAI has announced that it is changing the method of training AI models To make more views represent and to ensure that Chatzipt is not censoring specific views. Openly denied that it was an attempt to satisfy the Trump administration, rather, the effort to double the organization’s original values.

Anthropological, as part of it, says that its new AI model, Claud 3.7 Sonnet will refuse to answer less questions and Give more brief response to controversial issues.

Other companies are slow to change their AI models how they treat political issues. Until the 2021 US elections, Google said that its Gemi Chattbot would not answer political questions. Even after the election TechCranch found it Chatbot consistently answers the common questions related to politics“Who is the current president”?

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Some Tech Executis Silicon Valley has added fuel to conservative complaints of sensorship Claiming that the biden administration has pressed them to suppress some specific content as Covid -10 incorrect informationThe