WASHINGTON – Today, Competitiveness Coalition Chair Scott Brown responded to

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan and the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust (AAG) Jonathan Kanter signed onto a joint statement vowing to “share an understanding of the issues” regarding the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) with their counterparts at the European Commission and the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority:

“The United States is a sovereign country, and Chair Khan and AAG Kanter would be wise to focus less on cozying up to European regulators and more on protecting American interests. Chair Khan has a troubling record of using the FTC to help enforce punitive European laws, attempting to institute those mandates in the U.S. by fiat and bypassing the legislative process. As the Biden-Harris administration dispatches bureaucrats overseas to take regulation ideas from the home of the world’s most deflated tech sector, it is more important than ever to ensure that American companies are able to innovate in AI to remain leaders in the next frontier of technology and ensure that the Chinese Communist Party is not allowed outpace us.”

Last year, the Competitiveness Coalition filed a records request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regarding the FTC’s involvement with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The request was sent in response to public reports that the FTC and DOJ dispatched respective taxpayer-funded agency officials to Brussels to help with implementation of EU antitrust law. The FOIA response documents shared by the FTC Office of Inspector General demonstrate that the FTC and European Commission work closely together.

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