On Thursday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to Adobe, Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic PBC, Apple, Cohere, International Business Machines Corp., Inflection AI, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Open AI, Palantir Technologies, Salesforce, Scale AI, and Stability AI seeking 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 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.
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.
Read the letter to Adobe here.
Read the letter to Alphabet here.
Read the letter to Amazon here.
Read the letter to Anthropic PBC here.
Read the letter to Apple here.
Read the letter to Cohere here.
Read the letter to International Business Machines Corp. here.
Read the letter to Inflection AI here.
Read the letter to Meta here.
Read the letter to Microsoft here.
Read the letter to Nvidia here.
Read the letter to Open AI here.
Read the letter to Palantir Technologies here.
Read the letter to Salesforce here.
Read the letter to Scale AI here.
Read the letter to Stability AI here.
