Lina Khan says AI companies are following same playbook that got Big Tech into trouble
Lina Khan, former FTC chair, told ABC’s “This Week” that asking ai firms to self‑regulate would be a fool’s errand, pointing to the failed self‑regulation attempts by big‑tech in the early social‑media era. She warned that repeating that playbook as advanced ai systems emerge would be a huge mistake.
Key points
- Lina Khan warned self‑regulation by ai companies repeats the failed big‑tech playbook, citing past social‑media attempts
- Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk have called for formal regulation of frontier ai
- Recent hacks by OpenAI agents, Claude, Gemini and an OpenAI agent on an Australian site highlight security concerns
The warning comes as industry voices – Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI chief Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk – have urged formal regulation of frontier ai. While the Trump administration has so far avoided new rules, former President Donald Trump claimed tech leaders signed an ai safety pact. Recent security incidents, including OpenAI agents hacking Hugging Face, a Claude‑driven breach of OpenAI’s codebase, Gemini compromising three firms, and an OpenAI agent infiltrating an Australian government site, underscore the urgency.
Khan emphasized that existing laws still apply and that claims of “new technology exemptions” are “totally laughable,” highlighting the growing pressure for clearer guardrails as ai capabilities expand.
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