AI market faces investigation by UK competitors regulator

A evaluation of the substitute intelligence (AI) market has been launched by the UK competitors watchdog.

Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) chief government Sarah Cardell informed the Financial Times its “fact-finding” mission would inform on the “real opportunities” but in addition the protections that might be wanted.

The probe would come with the fashions behind fashionable chatbots resembling ChatGPT, she stated.

AI is attracting rising scrutiny as fast improvement raises fears of many threats together with to privateness and jobs.

The way forward for coursework inside exams is underneath stress by so-called generative AI.

The CMA spoke up simply days after the US Federal Trade Commission warned this week it was “focusing intensely” on how such know-how is being developed and used.

The week additionally noticed the so-called godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, converse out in opposition to the tech he helped create and the risk it might pose to humanity after leaving his function at Google.

For its half, the CMA has proven it’s not afraid to face as much as huge tech corporations.

It attracted a backlash final week from Microsoft when it determined to dam the corporate’s $75bn takeover of the video games writer Activision Blizzard.