Artificial Intelligence and Competition Policy

"Artificial Intelligence and Competition Policy" features 20 essays by leading scholars and practitioners exploring the wide range of questions bearing on the implications of AI for the competitive process. This collection of essays is divided into three sections, providing a solid foundation to delve into the emerging subjects: "Market Dynamics, Mergers, and Partnerships in AI", "AI Challenges for Competition Law", and "Policy Responses to the AI Boom".

This book offers a provocative look at key areas of competition-related AI scholarship. It serves as a valuable resource for legislators, policymakers, and enforcers to assess how competition law can be adapted to confront the challenges of AI.

Alden F. Abbott is Senior Research Fellow in the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. A widely published scholar and lecturer, he oversees the Center's research on antitrust and competition policy. He also is the regular antitrust columnist for Forbes online and a Leader of the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section. Prior to joining Mercatus, he served as General Counsel of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Abbott is co-author (with Shanker Singham) of Trade, Competition, and Domestic Regulatory Policy (Routledge 2023), a unique study of the global interactions among antitrust, regulation, trade, and intellectual property laws. His current research focuses on artificial intelligence, innovation, and government-sponsored anticompetitive market distortions that undermine the global economy. He also is a member of the Growth Commission, a special research body that issues reports on national economic policies that have slowed economic growth.

Dr. Thibault Schrepel, LL.M., is an Associate Professor of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam University (Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute), and a Faculty Affiliate at Stanford University (CodeX Center), where he founded the "Computational Antitrust" project that brings together over 65 antitrust agencies. Thibault is also the founder of the Network Law Review, and the host of the "Scaling Theory" podcast. In recent years, Thibault has focused most of his research on blockchain antitrust, computational antitrust, and complexity theory. He has written the world's most downloaded antitrust articles on SSRN in 2018 ("The Blockchain Antitrust Paradox"), 2019 ("Collusion by Blockchain and Smart Contracts"), 2020 ("Blockchain Code as Antitrust"), 2021 ("Computational Antitrust: An Introduction and Research Agenda"), and 2022 ("Complexity-Minded Antitrust").

Cani Fernández is the president of the National Commission for Markets and Competition. She Graduated in Law with merit from the University of Zaragoza in 1986 and has obtained a Special Degree in European Law for the Free University of Brussels in 1987, with Great Distinction. In 1986 she was awarded with the NATO Fellowship Program. Between 1987 and February 2020, she worked as a lawyer in private practice specialized in EU and Competition Law. From 1993 to 1997 she was référendaire at the Court of Justice of the European Union. She was the first woman to be appointed as a co-chair of the Antitrust Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). In addition, she held the position of Vice-chair of the Economics Committee of the Antitrust Section at the American Bar Association (ABA), Officer of the International Cartel Task Force of the ABA Antitrust Section, and member of the IBA LPD Council. She was also a Non Governmental Advisor (NGA) of the EU Commission and the National Commission for Markets and Competition before the International Competition Network (ICN). In 2020 she was appointed President of the Spanish National Commission for Markets and Competition. Since January 2021 she is member of the OECD Competition Committee Bureau.