Episode
Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn't kill everyone????
Decoder with Nilay Patel · Sep 19, 2026 · 46 min
The biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation. The CEOs of all these companies have issued various calls to slow down development and develop regulation, including asking for antitrust exemptions so they can all coordinate on safety issues. So to make sense of it all, I called Jonathan Kanter, the former antitrust chief for the U.S. Department of…