By Elias Visontay
Publication Date: 2026-01-13 00:53:00
Consumer czar Gina Cass-Gottlieb has warned against the proliferation of artificial intelligence systems in online retail, saying bots used by rival companies could collude to set prices.
I am speaking to this imprint, The chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) highlighted the risks of AI “agents” or bots, which will be a key focus of the regulator this year.
In addition to pointing out the danger of antitrust behavior from AI-powered bots, Cass Gottlieb warned of AI’s potential to “heat up” fraud and an emerging trend among companies to exaggerate the extent to which machine learning actually plays a role…
