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Trump DOJ official downplays antitrust concerns about companies coordinating AI safety development

Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said at Fordham University in New York on Thursday that companies coordinating on cybersecurity and AI safety parameters do not appear to raise anticompetitive concerns, as the Justice Department reviews whether to update its existing guidance on cybersecurity cooperation. Woodward stopped short of saying such coordination should require DOJ oversight, addressing antitrust questions raised by AI companies' calls to slow development of the technology.

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Trump DOJ official downplays antitrust concerns about companies coordinating AI safety development
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A senior Justice Department official on Thursday sought to clarify emerging antitrust questions surrounding artificial intelligence companies’ calls to slow development of the technology, saying cooperation on cybersecurity does not appear anticompetitive.

Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said at Fordham University in New York that the DOJ is reviewing whether to update existing guidance on cybersecurity cooperation. But he stopped short of saying that firms merely coordinating to pace the safety and cybersecurity parameters of their products should require any DOJ oversight.

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