AI safety could be the first nail in the coffin of antitrust's consumer welfare standard
panickssery · x · 2026-09-22
In a debate with panickssery, JackYoustra hopes the latest AI safety push will be the first nail in the coffin of the "silly narrow yet strict consumer welfare standard" for antitrust, arguing regulators should be able to weigh catastrophic safety consequences rather than consumer prices alone.
Related event: AI Safety Agenda May Topple Consumer-Welfare Antitrust Standard(2 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- OpenAI's AGI plan: build an automated AI researcher, then iterate on alignment with it — trevposts · 2026-09-22
- Investor Stewart Alsop mocks ego-bruised calls to slow down AI — StewartalsopIII · 2026-09-22
- Stanford/Tsinghua paper claims 'dopamine neurons' in LLMs, researchers push back — aran_nayebi · 2026-09-22
- MIRI's Nate Soares: 'I feel more hopeful this week than I have in a decade' — trevposts · 2026-09-22
- Zach Weiner: Not Enough Is Spent on the Psychological Toll of AI 'Outmoding' Humans — aran_nayebi · 2026-09-22
- Legal scholar proposes making AI developers liable when agents commit torts — NathanpmYoung · 2026-09-22