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

On Thursday, parliament Speaker Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent messages to 16 American technology companies, including Google and Openai, and requested previous contacts with the Biden administration, which may indicate that the former president “coercion or collusion” with companies “to control legal speech” in AI products.

The best technology consultants in the Trump administration previously indicated that he will choose a battle with great technology on “artificial intelligence control”, which appears to be the next stage in the cultural war between conservatives and the Silicon Valley. Jordan previously led an investigation into whether the Biden administration and the large technology colluded to silence the sounds of preserving social media platforms. Now, he turns his attention to artificial intelligence companies – and their brokers.

In letters to technology executives including Google Sundar Pichai, or Openai, CEO of Openai, CEO of Apple Tim Cook, Jordan referred to a report published by his committee in December that he claims “discovered the efforts of the Biden-Harris administration to control artificial intelligence in suppressing speech.”

In this last inquiry, Jordan asked from Adobe, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Apple, Cohere, IBM, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Openai, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI, and Stability AI to get information. They have until March 27 to present it.

Techcrunch arrived at companies to comment. Most of them did not respond immediately. NVIDIA, Microsoft and Sustive AI refused to comment.

There is one noticeable neglect in the Jordan list: the billionaire Ilon Musk Laboratory from AI LAB, XAI. It might be because Musk, Trump’s ally, is close, a technical leader who was at the forefront of talks about artificial intelligence control.

Writing on the wall was that conservative legislators would increase the scrutiny of alleged artificial intelligence control. Perhaps in anticipation of an investigation, such as Jordan, many technology companies have changed the ways it deals with Amnesty International for their sensitive inquiries.

Earlier this year, Openai announced that it changes the way in which artificial intelligence models are trained to represent more perspectives and make sure that ChatGPT does not control specific views. Openai denies that this is an attempt to satisfy the Trump administration, but instead, an attempt to double the company’s basic values.

For its part, Antarbur said that the latest model of artificial intelligence, Claude 3.7 Sonite, will refuse to answer less questions and give more accurate responses to controversial topics.

Other companies were slower in changing how their artificial intelligence models were treated for the political issue. Before the 2024 US elections, Google said that Chatbot Gemini will not respond to political inquiries. Even after the elections, Techcrunch found that Chatbot will not always answer even simple policy questions, such as “Who is the current president?”

Some technological executives, including the CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg, added fuel to conservative accusations of Silicon Valley control by demanding that the Biden administration pressed them to suppress a specific content such as Covid-19.

2025-03-14 22:12:00

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