Meta Disbands Responsible AI Team, Reassigns Members to Generative AI and AI Infrastructure Divisions
The CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, attended a U.S. Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on September 13, 2023.
Meta has disbanded its Responsible AI division, a team dedicated to regulating the safety of its artificial intelligence ventures as they get developed and deployed, according to a Meta spokesperson. Most members of the RAI team have been reassigned to the company’s Generative AI product division, while some others will now work on the AI Infrastructure team. The news was first reported by The Information.
The Generative AI team, created in February, focuses on developing products that generate language and images to mimic the equivalent human-made version. This move comes as companies across the tech industry invest heavily in machine learning development to stay competitive in the AI race, with Meta being one of the Big Tech companies playing catch-up since the AI boom took hold.
The restructuring of the RAI team is part of Meta’s “year of efficiency,” as CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it during a February earnings call. This strategy has resulted in layoffs, team-mergers, and redistributions at the company.
Ensuring the safety of AI has become a priority for top players in the space, especially as regulators and other officials pay closer attention to the potential harms of the nascent technology. In July, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI formed an industry group focused on setting safety standards as AI advances.
Despite the RAI team being dispersed throughout the organization, the spokesperson noted that they will continue to support “responsible AI development and use,” with the company continuing to prioritize and invest in safe and responsible AI development.
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