Business Law and Corporate Law

The Federal Trade Commission has proposed a controversial policy statement that would use Section 5 of the FTC Act to pursue AI companies for allegedly distorting system outputs toward undisclosed ideological objectives rather than user-requested goals. The proposal, which executes a Trump administration directive, creates potential enforcement risk for AI developers, downstream entities, and customers while asserting federal preemption over state AI laws like Colorado's Artificial Intelligence Act. Industr

Multinational companies face an increasingly complex compliance landscape marked by rapid regulatory change, geographic fragmentation, and heightened scrutiny from enforcement authorities and stakeholders. This comprehensive checklist provides a practical framework for evaluating whether your corporate compliance program is truly effective in practice, examining critical areas from governance and risk assessment to third-party oversight and M&A integration.

The Federal Trade Commission's proposed policy statement on AI accuracy suppression rests on fundamental misunderstandings about how AI systems actually work. This analysis examines three critical misconceptions in the FTC's framework: the false assumption of a "natural" baseline state for AI models, the impossibility of defining an objective "best" output for most queries, and the mischaracterization of bias mitigation as accuracy suppression rather than essential engineering.