US Treasury Secretary tells lawmakers not to give AI companies what they want

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a House committee that AI creators should be liable for their products rather than receive antitrust exemptions. The remarks respond to an essay by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calling for slower AI development and a narrow antitrust exemption to discuss safety standards.

• Bessent: the best safety guarantee is liability for AI creators
• Amodei proposed a narrow antitrust exemption for safety standards
• OpenAI backed an Illinois bill granting liability exemptions
• FTC Chair Ferguson urged skepticism toward such exemptions