U.S. FTC to enforce law to curb risks of
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[May 04, 2023]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission's chief said
the agency was committed to using existing laws to rein in some of the
dangers of artificial intelligence, such as enhancing the power of
dominant firms and "turbocharging" fraud. |
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FTC Commissioner nominee Lina M. Khan
testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Committee hearing on the nomination of Former Senator Bill Nelson to be
NASA administrator, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 21, 2021.
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"Although these (AI) tools are novel, they are not exempt from
existing rules, and the FTC will vigorously enforce the laws we are
charged with administering, even in this new market," FTC Chair Lina
Khan wrote in an opinion piece in the New York Times on Wednesday.
The sudden popularity of Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT this year
has prompted global calls for regulation amid concerns about its
possible use for wrongdoing even as companies seek to use it to
enhance efficiency.
She described the agency as "well equipped" to handle the job.
One risk she noted was that firms that dominate cloud services and
computing would become even more powerful as they help startups and
other firms launch their own AI. AI tools could also be used to
facilitate collusion to raise prices.
Khan expressed concern that generative AI, which writes in
conversational English, could be used to help scammers write more
specific and effective phishing emails.
"When enforcing the law's prohibition on deceptive practices, we
will look not just at the fly-by-night scammers deploying these
tools but also at the upstream firms that are enabling them," she
wrote.
(Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
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