Artificial Intelligence Teaches Itself to Collude? What Increasingly Sophisticated AI Could Mean for Antitrust Compliance

The availability of big data and increasing sophistication of algorithms and artificial intelligence has had an evolving impact on strategic decision-making across sectors. Pricing algorithms can assist firms to optimize pricing on a near real-time basis in response to competitors’ strategic moves through the rapid analysis of vast quantities of market data.  They can also be used — as has been demonstrated by government enforcement actions — to facilitate sophisticated collusion betw