Antitrust Agencies Should Be Wary of AI Scrutiny, Official Says

The market for artificial intelligence is competitive, evolving rapidly, and antitrust enforcers should be wary of intervening, a senior White House official said.

When it comes to AI, “concentration does not seem to be a problem here right now,” said Ryan Baasch, the deputy director of the National Economic Council at the White House, during an antitrust event in Washington Thursday.

“We’re blessed to have at least five frontier AI labs,” Baasch said. “Every week you see one lab’s model leapfrogging the other in some benchmark, that’s a blessing.”

In his role at the NEC — Baasch, who was ...