Lina Khan

“I think we need to take any reporting around investigations by this administration with a huge grain of salt. The chair of the FTC has said very plainly that it is President Trump and only President Trump that calls all the shots about what that agency will and will not do,”

Lina Khan · said 2026-10-04 · reported 2026-10-04

Khan questioned the independence of the FTC's probe into AI companies under the Trump administration.

“We need to remember what happened a decade ago, where you had big tech companies, social media companies, similarly suggest that existing laws and regulations no longer apply to their new technologies, and that they were going to try instead to self-police,”

Lina Khan · said 2026-10-04 · reported 2026-10-04

Khan appeared on 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos' to discuss AI self-regulation.

“I think there have been very conflicting reports where the CEOs are somehow proclaiming that these agents are going rogue, and yet we have reporting coming out that actually they were very much on notice that their systems could act like this,”

Lina Khan · said 2026-10-04 · reported 2026-10-04

Khan discussed conflicting reports about whether AI companies were aware their systems could act dangerously.

“[T]here are already some private cases that are now underway raising these questions. But I think when you have a pattern of these agents engaging in this type of dangerous behavior and you still have these companies developing them in the same way, not putting the full guardrails in place, I think that starts to raise very serious questions,”

Lina Khan · said 2026-10-04 · reported 2026-10-04

Khan responded to a question about whether AI leaders could be held responsible for models going rogue.

“We've seen just innumerable harms come from the unchecked domination of these big tech companies, and so now as we face new horizons with these advanced AI systems, it would be an enormous mistake to repeat that playbook,”

Lina Khan · said 2026-10-04 · reported 2026-10-04

Khan warned against repeating the self-policing playbook used by big tech a decade ago.

“And so, it's been heartening to see already some efforts by people.”

Lina Khan · said 2026-10-04 · reported 2026-10-04

Khan noted that some legislative efforts on AI regulation are already underway.

“Congress needs to legislate. We have a long history of governing technologies that are potentially transformative, but also extremely risky, extremely dangerous, be it when it came to the railroads, be it when it came to pharmaceuticals or nuclear power,”

Lina Khan · said 2026-10-04 · reported 2026-10-04

Khan called on Congress to legislate the growing AI industry, citing historical parallels with railroads and nuclear power.

“Self-regulation efforts by big tech have been a proven failure,”

Lina Khan · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-04

Khan dismissed a constitution signed by tech leaders to self-police AI development.