Ex-FTC Chair Lina Khan: Existing Consumer-Protection Law Already Covers Dangerous AI Releases
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-15
Former FTC chair Lina Khan argues regulators don't need to wait for AI-specific legislation: releasing unvetted AI models or agents can already violate consumer-protection law, and shipping flawed AI tools without safeguards can be an "unfair or deceptive" practice under the FTC Act. Enforcement agencies already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs — "there is no AI exemption from laws already on the books," a point the FTC stressed repeatedly during her tenure.
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