person
Lina Khan
Former chair of the FTC
Legal scholar who led an aggressive antitrust enforcement posture against AI-adjacent deals, launching probes into the OpenAI-Microsoft relationship. Frames AI governance partly as a competition-law problem.
Profile
expertise
Policy / meta
Specialises in AI policy, regulation, governance, philanthropy, or movement strategy. Reads the technical literature but does not produce it.
Former FTC Chair (2021–2025). Antitrust scholar. Drove FTC inquiries into AI partnerships and competition. Not a technical AI expert; antitrust expert applying frame to AI.
recognition
Household name
Name recognition outside the AI/CS community. Featured by mainstream press, a Wikipedia page in many languages, a published bestseller, or holds a position the lay public knows.
Mainstream press fixture during FTC tenure. Wikipedia in 30+ languages. Defined a generation of competition-policy thinking.
vintage
Post-ChatGPT
Entered the AI strategy debate in or after 2023. ChatGPT was already public when their voice became influential. Often shaped by Pause letter, AISIs, AI 2027.
Antitrust scholarship before, but FTC AI scrutiny ramped 2023+. Her AI-policy voice is post-ChatGPT.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
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Strategy positions
Antitrust primacyendorses
Break concentration via competition lawArgues concentration in AI infrastructure and deployment requires aggressive antitrust enforcement.
We know that moments of technological transition can lead to enormous consolidation, and moments of transition are also when the right policy can keep markets open.
Closest strategy neighbours
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.