Overview
- Representatives Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia sent letters Oct. 29–30 asking the president to preserve any prompts and responses submitted to chatbots such as Grok, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini when used for official business and to provide a closed-door briefing by Nov. 11.
- The lawmakers frame those exchanges as presidential records under the Presidential Records Act and say preserving them is needed to determine whether private AI systems influenced policy or military actions.
- Congressional Democrats separately asked five major AI developers to produce detailed safety‑incident reports with a Nov. 11 deadline and to notify lawmakers within 48 hours of new incidents or within 24 hours for critical infrastructure events.
- Support for the preservation request rests on prior reporting that President Trump consulted Grok in a December 2025 Oval Office meeting about Venezuela and on documented AI failures, including a U.S. strike on an Iranian school and a near‑miss tied to a misidentified ship.
- The White House says it ‘‘preserves all required records’’ but lawmakers say NARA guidance leaves a gray zone about when AI outputs become federal records and warn they may escalate oversight or seek subpoenas if responses and company reports are insufficient.