Giuseppe Colangelo (Università degli Studi della Basilicata; Stanford Law School; International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE)) has posted Don’t Catch me (too early) if you Can: A Competition Policy Perspective on the Integration of Assistive and Agentic AI Services on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The rapid pace of technological change continues to represent the principal challenge for modern competition policy. While the emergence of digital platforms and ecosystems has been invoked to justify a departure from traditional antitrust enforcement and has underpinned the recent wave of regulatory interventions, the rise of AI is reshaping the competitive landscape once again, calling into question the adequacy of existing analytical approaches and regulatory tools. Against this backdrop, by examining the expansion and role of AI-enabled assistants and agents, this paper seeks to provide a competition policy analysis of strategies aimed at integrating AI applications. It argues that the transformative and disruptive potential of AI technologies calls for a context-sensitive approach, rather than a mechanical and uncritical replication of the Big Tech-centric narrative that has characterized the recent competition policy in digital markets.