House Judiciary Committee Chairman wants info about potential censorship pressure on AI companies such as Apple

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has sent letters to several tech companies included Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, Open AI, and more. 

The letter seeks all documents and communications with the Biden-Harris Administration related to content moderation and suppression as the Committee conducts oversight of how and to what extent the executive branch coerced or colluded with artificial intelligence (AI) companies and other intermediaries to censor lawful speech.

During the 118th Congress, the Committee’s oversight uncovered how the Biden-Harris Administration repeatedly pressured online platforms to censor Americans directly and by proxy. The Committee also purportedly uncovered the Administration’s efforts to control AI to suppress speech, such as the efforts to push over a dozen AI companies to mitigate so-called “harmful bias” and “algorithmic discrimination” in the development and use of their AI models, according to the letter. 

Here’s what the letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook says, in part: To inform legislative reforms to protect Americans’ civil liberties in light of developing AI technologies, the Committee must fully understand the nature and extent of the Biden-Harris Administration’s censorship efforts. Accordingly, we write to request documents and information about the nature and extent of your company’s interactions with the executive branch with respect to the content moderation of your AI models.

The letter to all the companies reads pretty much the same. The Committee is requesting “all documents and communications from January 1, 2020, to January 20, 2025, referring or relating to the moderation, deletion, suppression, restriction, or reduced circulation of the content, input, or output of an AI model, training dataset, algorithm, system, or product.”

As noted by AppleInsider, the current Republican-led probe into AI is another attempt to try and prove that Big Tech companies are censoring the talking points and views of conservatives. The investigation is a direct attempt to assert the claim of technological censorship, which supporters of the Republican party think is happening.

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