What If Your AI Breaks the Antitrust Laws?

Opublikowano: 2026-09-03

You tell your AI to make as much money as you can. The instruction is quite standard. But what if the AI learns that profits increase if it cooperates with competitors—or makes life difficult for a new competitor? It wasn't ordered to set prices. No one told it to exclude its competitors. The machine worked out the strategy: What do autonomous AI agents mean for antitrust law? Cartel law looks at whether competitors really made an agreement. Monopolization law asks whether a powerful firm harmed the competitive process, not simply whether it competed aggressively. AI doesn't so...