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Federal Trade Commission has broad jurisdiction to combat abuse of AI under Section Five of the FTC Act, which prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce. Hence, the FTC has a wider net for pursuing and curtailing AI abuse.

In Topkins, discussed in Part I, the defendants had already entered their unlawful agreement—algorithms were a tool to implement the agreement. The more vexing question facing antitrust...

Whether tacit collusion—where firms effectively behave as though they are colluding without any direct communication expressing agreement—should give rise to an antitrust violation...

REMARKS AS PREPARED Thank you, Vivian.  I’m grateful to you, Cecilia, and everyone at the Aspen Institute for spotlighting President Biden’s

A new year would be an opportune time for Kentucky’s Transportation Cabinet to update its costly and outdated road construction-bidding policies in too many ways reminiscent of the days when