U.K. Lawmakers Warn Against Tech Giants Dominating AI Industry

April 16, 2018, 4:26 PM UTC

An influential body of U.K. lawmakers said regulators should stop major tech companies from dominating the field of artificial intelligence, and also warned on the potential of widespread unemployment due to the technology.

British antitrust regulators should be mindful that large datasets on which artificial intelligence depends on are not monopolized by a handful of large technology companies, such as Alphabet Inc., International Business Machines Corp. and Microsoft Corp., the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence said in a report published April 16.

“Large companies which have control over vast quantities of data must be prevented from becoming ...

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