Lina Khan Says Existing U.S. Law Can Reach Unsafe AI Releases by Companies and CEOs

Former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan has argued that AI developers and, in some circumstances, their CEOs can already face liability under existing U.S. law for releasing dangerous, defective or poorly tested systems. The argument reframes the latest AI safety fight from a need for brand-new legislation to an enforcement question: whether agencies and courts will apply old consumer-protection and competition statutes to frontier models and agents.