{"id":3510,"date":"2026-10-29T22:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2026-10-29T22:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:03:44","slug":"does-white-house-ask-ai-to-shape-policy-democrats-want-the-receipts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3510","title":{"rendered":"Does White House ask AI to shape policy? Democrats want the receipts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Senior Democrats demanded on Thursday that US President Donald Trump preserve records of any official exchanges with artificial intelligence chatbots, raising questions about whether Elon Musk\u2019s Grok influenced sensitive military decisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated Wednesday and first obtained by <em>Politico<\/em>, congressmen Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia said questions submitted by Trump and White House aides \u2014 and the chatbots\u2019 answers \u2014 constituted presidential records that must be preserved under federal law.<\/p>\n<p>They requested a closed-door briefing by November 11 covering the president\u2019s use of AI, security safeguards and whether outside companies could access sensitive conversations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the American President is relying on the policy advice of a Musk-designed, Hitler-friendly chatbot with a predilection for child pornography in order to carry out his official duties, Americans have a right to know,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The language alludes to past controversies over Grok generating antisemitic statements and sexualized images of children.<\/p>\n<p>The letter follows reports that Trump spent hours using Grok during a December 2025 Oval Office meeting with Musk, including asking how Venezuelans might react if US forces captured President Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>Grok reportedly said many would welcome Maduro\u2019s downfall. US forces seized him weeks later, but no evidence has emerged that the chatbot determined the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers questioned Trump\u2019s reported reliance on a privately controlled chatbot in matters of foreign policy, warning that AI-generated answers could be inaccurate or manipulated.<\/p>\n<p>They cited reporting about an AI-assisted intelligence error involving a Chinese vessel, and allegations that excessive reliance on artificial intelligence contributed to a US strike on an Iranian school that killed more than 100 children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the United States military killed dozens of innocent schoolchildren based on the faulty advice of an AI chatbot, we have a right to know that too,\u201d the lawmakers added.<\/p>\n<p>Neither episode establishes a role for Grok in those military decisions.<\/p>\n<p>They also sought details about restrictions on submitting classified information, the handling of chatbot records and any third-party access to them.<\/p>\n<p>Their request extends to other chatbots, including OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, Anthropic\u2019s Claude and Google\u2019s Gemini.<\/p>\n<p>A White House official told <em>AFP<\/em> the administration preserves all required records in accordance with the law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Democrats demanded on Thursday that US President Donald Trump preserve records of any official exchanges with artificial intelligence chatbots, raising questions about whether Elon Musk\u2019s Grok influenced sensitive military decisions. In a letter dated Wednesday and first obtained by Politico, congressmen Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia said questions submitted by Trump and White House aides \u2014 and the chatbots\u2019 answers \u2014 constituted presidential records that must be preserved under federal law. They requested a closed-door briefing by November 11 covering the president\u2019s use of AI, security safeguards and whether&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}