Also, this notion that the government can “police competition” (their words!) based on the “risk” that anticompetitive things “might” happen is fantasy. It’s seeking out precrime. Have consumers actually been hurt? Ok, that is a crime—prosecute it as such. Deploying the full power of the administrative state to harass the companies developing this technology is what is anticompetitive—for America.

The Admin’s use of the word “monopoly” in this context also misunderstands the very nature of AI, which is only effective in proportion to the compute power it draws on. Of *course* the big guys will have an advantage in developing the models. There is literally no other way. The state is applying 19th-century definitions of monopoly to a technology that that era could not even imagine.

“The draft order instructs every agency under its umbrella to police AI business competition, looking out for “risks arising from concentrated control” and preventing the dominant multi-billion dollar firms from further consolidating power. There is growing concern that only the largest companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft will be able to compete.”