Overview
Former FTC chair (2021–Jan 2025) known for aggressive antitrust enforcement against big tech. Now advocates applying existing consumer protection, product liability, and antitrust law to AI companies.
Recent Developments
- 2026-09-14: Posted on X that existing laws — including FTC Act unfair/deceptive practices and 1934 ftc-v-keppel precedent — can hold AI CEOs criminally liable without new legislation (2026-09-14-khan-ai-ceo-criminal-liability)
- Cited OpenAI Hugging Face agent incident and nvidia’s Hugging Face acquisition as accountability conflicts
- Commentary, not enacted policy — pairs with jensen-huang-trump-ai-slowdown policy cluster