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The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) depends on two terms that lawmakers never defined. “Fairness” and “contestability” determine how the European Commission measures gatekeeper compliance, imposes new obligations, and grades its own performance every three years. The law uses both terms liberally but explains neither. Recital 79 even promises that the Commission will apply … The DMA’s Magic Words and Missing Off Switch
The trouble with chatbots is right there in the name: They talk. When that talk contributes to harm, policymakers face a deceptively difficult question. Should they seek rules that amount to policing dangerous conduct, or deciding what the chatbot should have said instead? The question matters because chatbots have quickly become one of the most … The Right-Answer Machine: Who Decides What Chatbots Should Say?
The frontier AI race’s latest safety proposal would have the leading contenders agree on how fast to run. Antitrust law has a less flattering name for that arrangement: a cartel. That is the central problem with the “pacing the frontier” plan that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei unveiled last weekend, and that fellow AI executives Sam … Move Slow and Collude: The Antitrust Problem With Pacing AI
