Forecasting Federal AI Oversight and Antitrust Priorities for Technology Markets

When the CEOs of major tech companies appeared in prime position at President Trump’s inauguration, it brought the new Administration’s policies on Big Tech and AI to the forefront. The Biden Administration took an aggressive approach to litigating against Big Tech’s alleged antitrust violations and warning about the perceived dangers of AI, and so far the Trump Administration appears poised to continue enhanced antitrust scrutiny against Big Tech—though perhaps not as aggressively. Yet, while the Trump Administration has signaled an interest in continuing to use antitrust law to pursue Big Tech companies—as it did in President Trump’s first Administration—it has expressed much more skepticism of regulating the AI industry. And, in another break with the Biden Administration, the Trump Administration is focused on using its enforcement actions to target alleged censorship in Big Tech.