Today in a Senate Judiciary Nomination hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Gail Slater, President Trump’s nominee to be Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice. Senator Hawley focused his questioning on Big Tech and antitrust enforcement, and the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
“I am extremely concerned about what the emergence of AI and monopoly power in AI will mean for American consumers,” said Senator Hawley.
“We have got to give power back to individual Americans to protect their rights. Antitrust enforcement by the U.S. government is a critical part of that,” he concluded.
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Senator Hawley previously served as chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution; Privacy, Technology, and the Law, where he worked to protect and defend the rights of Americans against powerful tech corporations.