Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman Lina Khan pledged for the agency to be vigilant in monitoring “unfair or deceptive” uses of artificial intelligence (AI) as the technology is increasingly deployed across critical sectors. In an op-ed published in The New York Times, Khan said it is crucial for the FTC to monitor the risks to ensure “the hard-learned history” of the rise of Web 2.0 doesn’t repeat itself — when she said mainstream tech giants “revolutionized communications” at a “steep cost” paid in the “widespread hoarding and sale of our personal data.”
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