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When Margrethe Vestager takes antitrust battle to robots
By Nicholas Hirst
Pity the poor price-fixer.
Artificial intelligence doesn’t just threaten the livelihoods of honest professions like truck driving or accounting. It has the potential to replace the smoked-filled meeting rooms of cartel lore with humming, refrigerated server farms working away to collude in ways that competition enforcers might struggle to detect, much less crack down upon.
Businesses are only just starting to introduce artificial intelligence and self-teaching algorithms into their management operations, but that hasn’t stopped trust-busters from sounding the alarm about threats that may not be that far over the horizon.
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