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Lina Khan, the former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, also rejects the industry’s position that existing laws don’t apply to its technology: “Policymakers should look to laws already on the books, not to the online manifestoes and blog posts written by tech chief executives, for guidance,” Khan wrote in a recent op-ed.
“Much of the commentary from the executives suggests they currently operate in a legal vacuum, as if A.I. has wiped clean the regulatory map. In fact, their business practices — including how they develop and deploy their technologies — are already subject to longstanding laws,” including product liability and tort law.
She’s right. The subtext of much of the industry’s palaver about the need for new regulations is that AI is so new-fangled that the old rules don’t apply. But they do, and enforcing them should be start of keeping AI’s dangers under control.
See the full story here: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-10-13/of-course-government-should-regulate-ai-but-not-the-way-the-ai-industry-prefers