Antitrust
The development of advanced AI models is increasing a number of security-related risks, such as cyberattacks, theft of models by foreign adversaries, proliferation of biological weapons, and models evading the control of developers. Mitigating these risks may require collaborative efforts across developers, yet fear of violating antitrust law deters developers from cooperation that would benefit the public. The Law Reform Institute is working to ensure that antitrust law does not serve as a barrier to legitimate collaboration on serious security risks.
A Bipartisan Proposal to Fix the Problem
LRI has enthusiastically endorsed the Collaboration on Adversarial Threats and Security Risks Act, co-sponsored by Senators Banks and Schiff and Representatives Latta and Whitesides. The Act would provide an urgently needed framework that facilitates good-faith collaboration while maintaining safeguards against anticompetitive behavior.
Tim Schnabel (LRI president) and Dan Crane (University of Michigan Law School) wrote a Just Security article explaining the need for legislation on this topic and how the Act would address it.
LRI’s Work on Model Legislation
In 2025, LRI developed a draft of federal legislation on this topic, with the assistance of Dan Crane (University of Michigan Law School). The draft, which incorporated significant feedback from stakeholders, is available here. The Collaboration on Adversarial Threats and Security Risks Act is a significantly better bill than LRI’s 2025 draft, which remains available here purely for informational purposes.
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Read the draft bill: Collaboration on Frontier Model Risks Act
The Need for Agency Guidance
Pending the enactment of legislation on this topic, guidance from the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission could provide valuable guidance to frontier AI companies regarding their ability to collaborate on key security risks. LRI submitted a letter on this topic in response to the agencies’ request for comments on collaborations among competitors. We asked the agencies to clarify that existing antitrust laws do not prohibit legitimate collaboration on addressing AI security risks.