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William Lehr

Research Affiliate, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

4 publications since 2024Official page

Publications in the Network Law Review

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  1. 12 December 2025

    Understanding Digital Sovereignty in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    William Lehr, Volker Stocker and Jason Whalley

    EU Digital Sovereignty has emerged as a key policy topic amid growing geopolitical tensions fuelled by an AI arms race in which corporate investment and government support appear mutually reinforcing.

    Machines in the marketGuarding the gatekeepersWhat is antitrust for?

  2. 29 September 2025

    Principal-Agent Dynamics and Digital (Platform) Economics in the Age of Agentic AI

    Volker Stocker and William Lehr

    This article applies the principal–agent framework to the use of autonomous AI systems in digital markets. It examines the challenge of aligning AI agents with the interests of end-users, given that many systems may also reflect…

    Machines in the marketMarkets in motionGuarding the gatekeepers

  3. 30 May 2025

    The Growing Complexity of Digital Economies over the GenAI Waterfall: Challenges and Policy Implications

    Volker Stocker and William Lehr

    The GenAI genie is out of the bottle. AI, and its vanguard GenAI, is a change agent that profoundly impacts the global transition to a digital economy.

    Machines in the marketMarkets in motionGuarding the gatekeepers

  4. 5 March 2024

    AI Regulation and 6G: The Measurement Ecosystem Challenge

    William Lehr and Volker Stocker

    Artificial intelligence (AI) and its economic impacts have been emerging over decades. Even though the public launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022 has caused a frenzy about generative AI that arguably prompted a surge in…

    Machines in the marketMarkets in motionAntitrust, computed