{"id":12865,"date":"2023-10-10T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/german-antitrust-head-warns-ai-may-boost-big-techs-dominance-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T18:13:08","slug":"german-antitrust-head-warns-ai-may-boost-big-techs-dominance-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/german-antitrust-head-warns-ai-may-boost-big-techs-dominance-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"German antitrust head warns AI may boost Big Tech’s dominance | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The head of Germany’s cartel office has warned that artificial intelligence may boost Big Tech’s market power and regulators should be on the lookout for any anti-competitive behaviour.<\/p>\n

The comments by Andreas Mundt underscore regulatory concerns that tech giants, with their vast troves of user data, may get a competitive edge in the new technology used in smart homes, web search, online advertising, cars and many other products and services.<\/p>\n

Alphabet’s\u00a0Google and Microsoft\u00a0have recently become rivals in artificial intelligence (AI), with the latter investing heavily in OpenAI and the former building the Bard AI chatbot among other investments.<\/p>\n

The surge in AI popularity has prompted governments around the world to try to impose rules on the use of the technology, with the European Union in a race to adopt its landmark AI rules by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

“For us as a competition authority, it is crucial that this new technology does not further strengthen the dominance of the large corporations,” Mundt told Reuters in an interview on Friday.<\/p>\n

“The danger is very great because you need two things above all for AI, powerful servers and vast amounts of data. Big internet corporations have both,” he said.<\/p>\n

Mundt said the field was still open to competition but regulators need to ensure it remains so.<\/p>\n

“However, models from smaller providers could also become so popular that they develop in the direction of a kind of operating system, a new platform,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Both developments are possible, and as an authority we have to be careful that any competitive potential is not buried from the outset.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n