Policy analyst proposes DOJ/FTC antitrust safe harbor for AI safety collaboration
WillRinehart · x · 2026-09-13
Policy researcher Will Rinehart has filed comments with the DOJ and FTC proposing a limited antitrust carveout for AI safety.
- Context: OpenAI and Anthropic ran a joint safety evaluation last summer; such collaboration is valuable, but antitrust law makes deeper cooperation on unreleased models legally risky.
- The proposal outlines terms for structured safety collaboration while explicitly keeping pricing, customers, and commercialization decisions off the table to prevent collusion under the guise of safety.
- The full filing is publicly available, and Rinehart is soliciting feedback.
Related event: Debate Rages Over Antitrust Waivers for AI Safety Collaboration(6 posts)→
More from Safety
- Inference-only chip proposal would bar RL rollouts for models in training — wfithian · 2026-10-31
- Every Used Codex and Agents to Survive the Railway Credential Breach — every · 2026-10-31
- Researchers debate whether more inference compute can substitute for training compute — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-31
- OpenAI blocks weapons details for teens, adds auto-ending chats fixated on violence — rohanpaul_ai · 2026-10-31
- First machine-checked security proof for end-to-end x86 process execution published — banteg · 2026-10-31
- Dartmouth provost who warned of AI cheating resigns over undisclosed AI use — Ars Technica AI · 2026-10-31