ANALYSIS: As Pricing Bots Flex New Muscle, Antitrust Watches AI

Nov. 6, 2023, 2:00 AM UTC

It’s tempting to ignore the breathy prognostications about generative artificial intelligence (GAI)—the technology is new, and the noise to signal ratio is still high. But antitrust enforcers are already taking the interface of AI and competition very seriously.

DOJ’s antitrust chief, Jonathan Kanter, has an AI and data team called “Project Gretzky,” for example—a reference to the hockey legend’s quip that the key is to skate to where the puck will be. Kanter, and many other enforcers, see that the AI industry is heating up, and they’re preparing for competitive problems to follow.

Antitrust circles are generally focused ...

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