ChatGPT — and other generative artificial intelligence technologies — are so expensive in manpower and computing resources that only large companies can develop and deploy them. This risks the industrialization of critical technologies that will be the building blocks of many future products and services, crowding out start-ups, researchers, and even governments (“The ‘industrialization’ of the AI revolution is Risk of Loss of Public Control,” Inside Business, March 24).
How can we prevent the Big Tech elite from using generative AI to gain even more and bring more to our lives? Balance between supporting development by the big companies that do it best, and opening them up to small businesses that want to use them to create new products and services. is needed.
This is where antitrust laws have a role to play. Prohibiting exclusive agreements on these technologies, ensuring open access to “modules” of generative AI capabilities (e.g., via open application programming interfaces), and recognizing employees who know how to build these technologies. Prohibit non-competitive behavior. from movers. But before the antitrust community can assume this role, it needs to change its mindset. This means viewing innovation as a process of sharing knowledge and capabilities (rather than as a result of individual pursuit of incentives) and intervening in the market before competition becomes a problem. (not later).
If the antitrust community can make this shift, we can spread the opportunities at the forefront of this industry and prevent minority dominance.
Ketan Ahuja
PhD Candidate, University of Oxford
oxfordshire, uk
