Aslihan Asil, Yale University, and Thomas Wollmann, University of Chicago, have published Can Machines Commit Crimes Under US Antitrust Laws? Here is the abstract.
Generative artificial intelligence is being rapidly deployed for corporate tasks including pricing. Suppose one of these machines communicates with the pricing manager of a competing firm, proposes to collude, receives assent, and raises price. Is this a crime under US antitrust laws, and, if so, who is liable? Based on the observed behavior of the most widely adopted large language model, we argue that this conduct is imminent, would satisfy the requirements for agreement and intent under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, and confer criminal liability to both firms as well as the pricing manager of the competing firm.
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