WASHINGTON D.C (VINnews) – Citing risks of political bias and misinformation from artificial intelligence chatbots, Reps. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., are pressing leading AI developers to provide voters with reliable information in the upcoming midterm elections.

“Anyone can ask a chatbot like Claude or ChatGPT, ‘You know me, who should I vote for?’ — and that chatbot may be pulling from biased sites or sources riddled with misinformation,” Gottheimer said in a statement. “I’m concerned about the impact that could have on our elections.”

Lawler and Gottheimer, working together on election integrity efforts, sent a bipartisan letter this week to the CEOs of major AI firms including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, Meta, Perplexity and X Corp. The letter seeks details on steps the companies are taking to address political bias, misinformation, transparency and source reliability in their large language models.

“AI is going to play a defining role in this election cycle, whether the industry is ready for it or not,” the lawmakers wrote. “The question is whether companies in this space will get ahead of the problem or be forced to address it after the damage is done.”

The initiative comes as AI tools become more prevalent in daily life and could influence voter decisions. Lawler and Gottheimer have highlighted parallels to social media’s past effects on elections and stressed the need for unbiased outputs from AI platforms.

The full letter is available on Lawler’s congressional website. No immediate responses from the AI companies were detailed in the announcement.