H.R. 9914, AI Industry Antitrust Carve-Out. Quorum's AI analysis reads it as a trade-off: gains for some, costs for others.
H.R. 9914 · Mixed
What it does
This bill creates an antitrust exemption allowing AI companies and other non-federal entities to share information and coordinate actions (including delaying or limiting AI releases) to address AI security risks, without violating antitrust law. Companies must notify the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division before coordinating delays or restrictions, and the exemption does not apply to price-fixing, market allocation, or monopolization. The Attorney General retains power to seek injunctions if companies abuse the exemption or if their coordinated actions actually increase AI security risks overall.
The analysis names large AI companies and developers — and 3 more groups — among the beneficiaries.
The trade-off
The exemption permits competitors to coordinate on release timing and feature deployment without antitrust liability, potentially enabling de facto market allocation disguised as security coordination.
The analysis put a high warning level on this bill. Transparency scores 45%, and the analysis found no provisions unrelated to the bill's subject.
Who is behind it
Filed by Robert Latta. Cosponsored by Darrell Issa, George Whitesides, Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan.