AI Critique in Antitrust—Episode 1: Testing the AI’s Analysis of Expert Reports Against Court Reasoning

Economic Concept: Framework for AI Critique, Market Definition, Competitive Effects, Evidence of Harm

Key Takeaways

• Modern antitrust cases rely less on raw facts and more on which expert’s sophisticated economic model sounds more persuasive to the court.

• Judges face three persistent challenges: subjectivity, bias, and the sheer complexity of competing econometric analyses.

• This series tests whether the AI can meaningfully critique expert economic reports—and whether it identifies the same issues courts emphasize. Most importantly, the experiments help readers learn how to ask the AI the right questions on complex tasks and explore whether some AI models may be better suited than others for this work.