Opinion | AI May Soon Weigh In on Regulation

Lawyers, take note: Artificial-intelligence systems will soon be commenting on new government rules. I asked ChatTPI, the Technology Policy Institute’s large language model, to respond to the Federal Communications Commission’s proposed net-neutrality rules. Its feedback, which draws on our research, isn’t good enough to submit, but it’s close.

Websites already allow the general public to submit comments alongside industry lawyers, think-tank advocates and regulatory experts. The FCC’s previous net-neutrality rulemakings received millions of comments from the internet. AI could turn those flurries into blizzards of long, detailed and unique comments. Government agencies need to figure out how to manage this new reality. They could do so simply by banning AI-generated comments, but that blunt approach would fail to recognize the technology’s benefits.