Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn't kill everyone???? | Decoder

The biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation. The CEOs of all these companies have issued various calls to slow down development and develop regulation, including asking for antitrust exemptions so they can all coordinate on safety issues.

So to make sense of it all, I called Jonathan Kanter, the former antitrust chief for the U.S. Department of Justice in the Biden Administration. There's a lot going on, and we really got into the weeds of how all this regulation might work, and how it might interact with antitrust law, competition policy, and our relationship with China.

0:00 Cold Open
0:46 Welcome to Decoder
1:41 Introducing Jonathan Kanter
2:39 The State of AI Regulation
3:58 "Rules of the Road" for AI
4:39 AI companies & Antitrust Exemption
8:53 "Robot Jail" & Product Liability for AI
11:18 Congress Is Broken
13:46 Section 230 & Public Trust
16:44 The Strange Political Realignment
19:09 Little Tech vs. Big Tech
21:01 Decoder Sessions
22:33 China as a Convenient Boogeyman
25:33 Competition Law vs. Foreign Policy
29:00 Should We Break Up the AI Oligopoly?
33:15 The Political Scramble Before Midterms
35:11 End of the Reagan Era & the New Deal
36:38 The Supreme Court Dismantled Regulation
38:05 Hipster antitrust
42:19 Why Trump Hasn't Settled the Apple Case
43:39 Kanter's Prescriptions for AI Regulation
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