Because it continues to develop extra superior AI fashions, and work in the direction of automated basic intelligence (AGI), Meta can also be eager to determine greatest follow guardrails and security requirements to make sure that AI doesn’t… nicely, enslave the human race.

Amongst different issues.

That’s why in the present day, Meta has introduced that it’s becoming a member of the Frontier Mannequin Discussion board (FMF) , a non-profit AI security collective that’s working to determine {industry} requirements and laws round AI growth.

As defined by FMF:

“As a non-profit group and the one industry-supported physique devoted to advancing the protection of frontier AI fashions, the FMF is uniquely suited to make actual progress on figuring out shared challenges and actionable options. Our members share a want to get it proper on security – each as a result of it’s the best factor to do, and since the safer frontier AI is, the extra helpful and helpful it is going to be to society.”

Meta, together with Amazon, will be part of Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI as members of the FMF mission, which can ideally result in the institution of best-in-class AI security laws. Which may assist to save lots of us from counting on John Connor to steer the human resistance.

As per Meta’s President of World Affairs Nick Clegg:

“Meta has lengthy been dedicated to the continued progress and growth of a safer and open AI ecosystem that prioritizes transparency and accountability. The Frontier Mannequin Discussion board permits us to proceed that work alongside {industry} companions, with a deal with figuring out and sharing greatest practices to assist preserve our merchandise and fashions secure.”

The FMF is at present working to determine an advisory board in addition to varied institutional preparations, together with a constitution, governance and funding, with a working group and government board to steer these efforts.

And whereas a robot-dominated future could appear far-fetched, there are a lot of different issues that the FMF will probably be masking, together with the technology of unlawful content material, misuse of AI (and find out how to keep away from it), copyright, and extra (notice: Meta additionally just lately joined the “Security by Design” initiative to forestall the misuse of generative AI instruments to perpetrate baby exploitation).

Although for Meta particularly, the hazards of AGI are certainly prescient.

Meta’s Elementary AI Analysis staff (FAIR) is already working in the direction of the event of human-level intelligence, and simulating the neurons of the mind digitally, in what would equate to “pondering” in a simulated atmosphere.

To be clear, we’re not wherever near this as but, as a result of whereas the newest AI instruments are spectacular in what they’re in a position to produce, they’re, actually, extremely complicated mathematical techniques, which match queries with responses based mostly on the info that they’ll entry. They’re not “pondering”, it’s simply an estimation of what logically comes subsequent, based mostly on the parameters of a given query.

AGI will be capable to do all of this by itself, and truly formulate concepts with out human prompts.

Which is a little bit scary, and will, in fact, result in extra issues.

Therefore the necessity for teams like FMF to supervise AI growth, and make sure that these accountable for such experiments don’t by chance information us in the direction of the tip occasions.