Big Tech’s Call for Light Touch on AI Falls Flat With Enforcers
- OpenAI, Google executives lobby for regulators to step aside
- Antitrust enforcers pledge close scrutiny of AI partnerships
Regulators worry that companies like Microsoft Corp., Google, and Amazon.com Inc. are tying themselves to promising startups to ensure they remain on top.
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Artificial intelligence could help cure cancer, ease energy insecurity and reduce poverty – if regulators would just get out of the way.
That was the message from executives with venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.’s Google at an event in Washington on the sidelines of the world’s largest antitrust conference.