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Event Description

The FTC’s Office of Technology is hosting the FTC Tech Summit with the goal of facilitating a dialogue amid a dynamic innovation landscape. This half-day virtual summit is focused on artificial intelligence and will be held on January 25, 2024, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm ET.

We’re in a pivotal moment

We are in a pivotal, all-hands-on-deck moment where innovative technologies—like the rise of large language models and generative AI—are rapidly being developed and deployed, and are changing the way we work, live, and communicate. Across the layers of technology—from hardware and computer infrastructure to consumer applications and devices—companies are investing in building and deploying AI products and services.

There’s profound potential and opportunity in how these tools can augment our lives—and with millions of use cases, we are seeing the scope of what is possible in a range of fields. However, there are also potential risks and harms: AI may turbocharge fraud, scams, and other misuse. Additionally, companies may use this market tipping moment to leverage anticompetitive tactics to lock in their dominance and block competition.

The FTC aims to ensure our skillsets and knowledge are keeping pace with evolving markets. Accordingly, we are eager to hear and learn from players across the AI ecosystem and will continue to use our existing legal authorities to address harms. We are scrutinizing the widespread adoption of next-generation technologies, including AI; we are horizon-scanning and making sure that we are asking the right questions; and we are trying to understand how dominant firms can use their control over key inputs—like data, models and key infrastructure—to undermine fair competition.

About the FTC Tech Summit

To that end, we are hosting the FTC Tech Summit to bring together a diverse set of perspectives across academia, industry, civil society organizations, and government agencies for a series of conversations on AI across the layers of the technology stack—from chips and cloud infrastructure to data and models to consumer applications. The conversations will focus on the state of technology and real-world impacts of AI on consumers and competition. The event is fully online and open to the public.

 

Registration

The event is open to the public. Registration is not required. More information will soon be available on this event page.

FTC Privacy Policy

Under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) or other laws, we may be required to disclose to outside organizations the information you provide when you pre-register for events that require registration. The Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments, whether filed in paper or electronic form, and as a matter of discretion, we make every effort to remove home contact information for individuals from the public comments before posting them on the FTC website.

The FTC Act and other laws we administer permit the collection of your pre-registration contact information and the comments you file to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. For additional information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see the Commission’s Privacy Act system for public records and comprehensive privacy policy.

This event will be open to the public and may be photographed, videotaped, webcast, or otherwise recorded.  By participating in this event, you are agreeing that your image — and anything you say or submit — may be posted indefinitely at ftc.gov or on one of the Commission's publicly available social media sites.

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