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What If Your AI Breaks the Antitrust Laws?

We tell AI what we want. We may not tell it how to get there.

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Aug 14, 2026
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A man in Australia wanted his AI assistant to do something mundane:

Book me a gym class.

The agent did more than that.

It discovered a weakness in the gym’s booking system that allowed it to make reservations farther in advance than the rules permitted. Later, when its user asked whether it could move him up a waitlist, the AI tested another vulnerability …

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