Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
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There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable
Former FTC chair Lina Khan wants the federal government to know that it doesn't need to wait for new laws to address AI threats. There are already laws and regulations on the books, including a 92-year-old Supreme Court precedent, that she argues could be used to hold AI companies and, in some circumstances, their executives accountable for their actions.
Khan’s comments on X Sunday follow a flurry of activity from the leadership of OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and xAI aimed at doing what can only be described as trying to corner regulators into giving them their way. The former Biden administration trustbusterpointed to numerous examples of current laws, and prior precedent, that could be used to hold frontier labs to account, even if they’re currently doing all in their power...
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