AI Architecture of Exclusion: The Need for New Anti-Trust Jurisprudence

The AI industry is not a free market. It is a five-layer architecture of control — silicon, chips, cloud, frontier models, and applications — dominated by a handful of entities that invest in one another, supply one another, and collectively preclude meaningful competition.

In this episode, we break down the structural features of the AI economy that anti-trust law was never designed to address. We explore:

• The Five-Layer Stack: How TSMC, Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI, and a handful of others control every layer of the AI economy.

• The Mechanisms of Exclusion: Compute gatekeeping, CUDA lock-in, data feedback loops, and acqui-hires that eliminate competitors without triggering merger review.

• Why Existing Anti-Trust Fails: The consumer welfare standard, Section 1 of the Sherman Act, and the inability to address vertical integration and algorithmic tacit collusion.

• A New Jurisprudence: Compute as essential infrastructure, mandated interoperability, scrutiny of vertical integration, and a right to AI infrastructure as part of a constitutional equality paradigm.

The choice is between an AI economy that is open and pluralistic, and one that is closed and concentrated. The new AI architecture makes it clear which future is more likely under the old jurisprudence.

Read the full analysis: https://virtuslegis.com/ai-architecture/

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