Meta plans to automate many of product risk assessments, NPR reports

Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including sensitive areas like AI safety and youth risk, according to internal documents viewed by NPR, Bobby Allyn and Shannon Bond reported on Friday. Under the new system, Meta says product teams will be asked to fill out a questionnaire about their work, then will receive an “instant decision” with AI-identified risks, along with requirements that an update or feature must meet before it launches. Meta said in a statement that it has invested billions of dollars to support user privacy and that the product risk review changes are intended to streamline decision-making, adding that “human expertise” is still being used for “novel and complex issues,” and that only “low-risk decisions” are being automated.