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Case Studies in Public & Private Policy Challenges of Artificial Intelligence

“How OpenAI is boosting scrutiny of Microsoft’s market power” by Rebecca Klar, 2023 [Additionally on Canvas]

This reading will give you an idea of the current toolkit for governing markets as applied to OpenAI and Microsoft. Where do you think the power lies in OpenAI’s corporate governance structure? Are there changes the parties could make that would further protect them from agency scrutiny? Are such changes likely to help consumers? The structure of the emerging Gen AI industry makes certain governance solutions untenable while boosting the attractiveness of others – should we tailor the solutions? Or intervene in the market?