In a sharply worded letter to Charles Grassley and Jim Jordan, who are both in Committees on the Judiciary in the Senate and House, AFL is calling for an investigation into a partnership between Apple Inc. and OpenAI that integrates ChatGPT directly into iPhone features like Siri.

AFL argues the deal sidelines competitors while funneling millions of users into a single AI ecosystem. Apple argues that you can access other AI apps SEPARATELY but with Apple reportedly controlling a massive share of the U.S. smartphone market (70%) and OpenAI dominating the chatbot space (over 80%), AFL claims the arrangement looks less like innovation – and more like a one-lane highway where Silicon Valley sets the speed, the rules, and the destination.

This “partnership” between Apple and OpenAI doesn’t appear to be the “marketplace of ideas” that the Founders had in mind. The real flashpoint? Bias.

AFL points to studies suggesting ChatGPT leans left on political and social issues – raising concerns that embedding it into everyday tools could shape public opinion. Subtly? Give me a break. It’s not subtle at all.

From personal experience, I’ve found ChatGPT is often inaccurate and unreliable when it comes to delivering facts – and X’s Grok isn’t much better. My concern isn’t just bias or spin; it’s that the information feeding these systems often produces outputs that are incomplete, misleading, or flat-out wrong. Is it on purpose? We don’t know. At this point, I think people would be better off going back to traditional search tools like Google and doing their own homework with sources they trust.

AFL President Gene Hamilton didn’t mince words in the company’s press release, warning that a default, ideologically tilted AI baked into dominant tech platforms could steer how Americans think. He said, “Biased AI, particularly those AI products baked into consumer products with market dominance, has the potential to exercise unprecedented power over how Americans think and engage with the world…they are endangering free speech itself. Congress must investigate this arrangement immediately to protect competition, viewpoint diversity, and the free marketplace of ideas.”

The AFL press release also talks about billions of user interactions that are and could be involved in any exclusive deal pointing out, “The potential for one ideologically slanted AI platform to dominate daily life for the American people is a direct threat to the free speech, free inquiry, and diversity of viewpoints essential to American liberty. Non-governmental actors wielding this kind of technological power can suppress competing perspectives far more effectively than traditional censorship ever could.”

I believe AFL is right. When your phone starts thinking for you and giving you wrong and biased information (purposefully or not), it might be time to ask who’s doing the programming and if the Left has found a new way to pull the wool over our eyes.