FTC Reviewing Competition, Deception in Artificial Intelligence

The US Federal Trade Commission is paying close attention to developments in artificial intelligence to ensure the field isn’t dominated by the major tech platforms, Chair Lina Khan said Monday.

“As you have machine learning that depends on huge amounts of data and also a huge amount of storage, we need to be very vigilant to make sure that this is not just another site for big companies to become bigger,” Khan said at an event hosted by the Justice Department in Washington.

The FTC – which enforces both competition and consumer protection laws – launched an inquiry focused on ...