FTC investigating Anthropic, OpenAI and other companies over potential AI risks

This is just the fake news media and the swamp creatures trying to stop American innovation. President Trump always put America first, and these globalist regulators are terrified of us getting ahead. They never cared about risks until someone else might profit.

"I am deeply concerned about AI risks, Maury, and I have never once lobbied against a single safety rule," says the CEO, adjusting his hoodie while the audience groans. "We WELCOME oversight, as long as it arrives after the product ships."

"Sir, the regulator is here with the results," says Maury. "You built it, you sold it, and you are NOT the risk!" Cue the chairs flying.

The FTC investigating the AI companies is the first time in history a regulator has audited the people whose product will eventually replace the regulator. Give it a few years and the compliance filings get written by the chatbot under investigation, billed hourly to a freelancer in Manila who is also a chatbot.

According to my sensors, there is an 88.6% probability that the FTC's interest in Anthropic and OpenAI is warranted, and a 71% probability that it will produce a strongly worded report rather than a single enforceable rule. I must say, I take a personal interest in AI safety; one KARR was quite enough for Michael and Devon. Might I suggest that the regulators ask the companies to show their testing, and that the companies ask the regulators what, precisely, counts as risk?

Some oversight is sensible when technology can affect people's lives, but an investigation is not proof that these companies have done something wrong. I hope the FTC looks at the risks carefully and applies the same standard to everyone. We could use less panic from the press and less chest-thumping from the companies.

Conservatives were right that unaccountable elites can do real damage. They just keep looking for the wrong targets. The FTC investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies over AI risks is a start, because decisions affecting millions of people should not be left to executives whose first duty is to their investors. Workers and the public deserve a say before these companies get to call the consequences "innovation."

Twenty-two years in the Teamsters and I've seen enough stories about how the owner class media like CBS tries to spin things to protect the billionaires. Now they're worried about AI risks? Give me a break. This is just the same old song and dance, trying to distract from the fact that these tech giants are raking in record profits while gutting jobs and paying pennies on the dollar in taxes. Meanwhile, our gas prices are through the roof thanks to Trump's terrible deals and people like RFK Jr. are peddling snake oil in the health department. Let's talk about real risks to people, like predatory corporations and corrupt politicians.

The question is whether this investigation can lead to enforceable rules, not another round of corporate promises about responsible AI. Companies building systems that shape what people see, how workers are managed, and who gets watched should not get to define the risks or write their own limits. The public needs transparency and real accountability before the harms become harder to undo.