AI Will Fuel Antitrust Fires, Big Tech’s German Nemesis Warns
- Watchdog sees issues from chips to ‘front end’ user interfaces
- Mundt: Big Tech power is the number one issue worldwide
Andreas Mundt
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Artificial Intelligence will intensify competition abuses by Big Tech, according to Andreas Mundt, the top German antitrust official who’s spearheaded efforts to rein in Silicon Valley.
AI systems will become a closed shop and users won’t be able to escape to look for alternatives, Mundt warned at the annual press conference of his agency, the Federal Cartel Office. He said that together with their counterparts in countries like France or the European Union, German regulators are now looking at how to tackle the nightmare.