The US government is gearing up for an AI antitrust fight

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The US Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s antitrust division say they’ll scrutinize the new field of artificial intelligence-powered tools for signs of anti-competitive behavior. “As you have machine learning that depends on huge amounts of data and also depends on huge amounts of storage, we need to be very vigilant to make sure that this is not just another site for the big companies becoming bigger and really squelching rivals,” Khan said at the summit, according to The Wall Street Journal. Likewise, as companies try to make the models less prone to unwanted output, they could require more human refinement and scrutiny of their vast datasets

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