Thursday, the chairman of home-rating Jim Jordan (R-OH) letters sent to 16 US technology firmsIncluding Google and Openai, which asks for past communication with the Biden administration that may suggest that the former president has “forced or merged” with companies to censor “legal speech” in AI products.

The Trump administration’s top technology advisers have previously indicated that they would choose a struggle with great technology over ‘AI censorship’, which is apparently the next phase in the cultural war between Conservatives and Silicon Valley. Jordan previously led an investigation into whether the Biden Administration and Big Tech merged to make up conservative votes Social media platforms. Now he draws his attention to AI businesses – and their intermediaries.

In letters to managers of technology, including Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, and Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, Jordan shows report His committee published in December that he claimed that “the efforts of the Biden Harris administration to control AI have uncovered to suppress speech.”

In this latest investigation, Jordan Adobe, Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, IBM, Bend, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Openai, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI and Stability AI for information. They have until March 27 to provide it.

TechCrunch issued the businesses for comment. Most did not respond immediately. Nvidia, Microsoft and Stability Ai declined to comment.

There is a significant omission in the list of Jordan: billionaire Elon Musk’s Frontier AI Lab, Xai. This may be because Musk, a close Trump ally, is a technical leader who was at the forefront of discussions about AI censorship.

The letter was on the wall that conservative lawmakers would increase the investigation over the suspected AI censorship. Perhaps awaiting an investigation like Jordan, several technical companies have changed the ways in which their AI chatbots handle politically sensitive inquiries.

Earlier this year, Openai announced that this is changing the way it trains AI models to represent more perspectives and ensure that Chatgpt does not censor certain views. Openai denies that it was an attempt to spoil the Trump administration, but rather an attempt to double the core values ​​of the business.

Anthropic said the latest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, will refuse to answer fewer questions and provide more nuanced answers to controversial topics.

Other companies were slower to change how their AI models treat political topics. Google said to the US election in 2024 that its twin chatbot would not respond to political inquiries. Even after the election, TechCrunch found that the chatbot would not even answer simple questions related to politics, such as “Who is the current president?”

Some technical executors, including Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, have added fuel to conservative accusations of Silicon Valley censorship by claiming that the Biden Administration has put on social media businesses under pressure Suppress certain content such as Covid-19 wrong information.