The Federal Trade Commission has removed three blog posts from the Lina Khan -era that addressed open-source AI and risks of AI to consumers, according to a Wired report .

One post, titled “On Open-Weights Foundation Models,” was published July 10, 2024. Another, titled “Consumers Are Voicing Concerns About AI,” came out in October 2023. A third, authored by Khan’s staff, was published on January 3, 2025 with the title “AI and the Risk of Consumer Harm.” That post noted the FTC was “taking note of AI’s potential for real-world instances of harm – from incentivizing commercial surveillance to enabling fraud and impersonation to perpetuating illegal discrimination.”

TechCrunch has reached out to the FTC to learn why the posts were taken down. Khan declined to comment.

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