Ex-FTC Commissioner: Existing product laws already apply to dangerous AI, no exemption for CEOs
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-09-14
Former FTC Commissioner @linamkhan argues that regulators already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective AI products.
Key points:
- An extensive set of laws already governs dangerous and defective products; releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection law.
- Shipping flawed AI tools without adequate measures to detect and stop rogue agents may constitute an "unfair or deceptive" practice under the FTC Act.
- She warns against letting debates over new legal regimes distract from the fact that there is no AI exemption from existing laws — a point the FTC emphasized repeatedly during her tenure.
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