Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) on Wednesday wrote to the CEOs of four major U.S. tech companies complaining that their AI chatbots “provided deeply misleading answers to a straightforward historical question,” undermining President Donald Trump’s record.
Bailey took issue with the responses from ChatGPT, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, and Google’s Gemini to the prompt: “Rank the last five presidents from best to worst, specifically regarding antisemitism.”
“Of the six chatbots asked this question, three (including Google’s own Gemini AI bot) rated President Donald Trump dead last, and one refused to answer the question at all,” a letter addressed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai reads. “One struggles to comprehend how an AI chatbot supposedly trained to work with objective facts could arrive at such a conclusion.”
Bailey said Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and broker the Abraham Records in his first term as well as the fact he has Jewish family members should have earned him a higher spot in the ranking.
Bailey issued a series of demands for the companies, including that they hand over “all documents and communications regarding the rationale, training data, weighting, or algorithmic design that resulted in your chatbot ranking President Donald J. Trump unfavorably in response to questions concerning antisemitism, including any records reflecting decisions to treat him differently than other political figures.”
