Facebook-parent Meta breaks up its Responsible AI team
Summary
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, attends a U.S. Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2023. It came as companies across the tech industry poured money into machine learning development so as not to get left behind in the AI race. Ensuring the safety of AI has become a stated priority of top players in the space, especially as regulators and other officials pay closer attention to the nascent technologys potential harms. In July, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI formed an industry group focused specifically on setting safety standards as AI advances. Though RAI employees have now been dispersed throughout the organization, the spokesperson noted that they will continue to support "responsible AI development and use."