Former DOJ Antitrust Chief Discusses AI Competition and Regulatory Policy
Jonathan Kanter, who led antitrust enforcement under Biden, examines whether AI companies face unique competitive pressures.
The Verge's Decoder podcast featured Jonathan Kanter, former head of the Department of Justice's antitrust division, in the first part of a two-part series on the future of business. Kanter, now a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis and technology policy professor at Carnegie Mellon University, discussed regulatory approaches to artificial intelligence competition.
The episode explores questions about how antitrust law should apply to AI development and whether existing competition frameworks are adequate for the sector, though specific policy recommendations from Kanter were not detailed in the available excerpt.
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