Mark Zuckerberg Assembles Team of Tech Execs For AI Advisory Council

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: Mark Zuckerberg has assembled some of his fellow tech chiefs into an advisory council to guide Meta on its artificial intelligence and product developments. The Meta Advisory Group will periodically meet with Meta's management team, Bloomberg reported. Its members include: Stripe CEO and co-founder Patrick Collison, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke, and former Microsoft executive and investor Charlie Songhurst.

"I've come to deeply respect this group of people and their achievements in their respective areas, and I'm grateful that they're willing to share their perspectives with Meta at such an important time as we take on new opportunities with AI and the metaverse," Zuckerberg wrote in an internal note to Meta employees, according to Bloomberg. The advisory council differs from Meta's 11-person board of directors because its members are not elected by shareholders, nor do they have fiduciary duty to Meta, a Meta spokesperson told Bloomberg. The spokesperson said that the men will not be paid for their roles on the advisory council. TechCrunch notes that the council features "only white men on it." This "differs from Meta's actual board of directors and its Oversight Board, which is more diverse in gender and racial representation," reports TechCrunch.

"It's telling that the AI advisory council is composed entirely of businesspeople and entrepreneurs, not ethicists or anyone with an academic or deep research background. ... it's been proven time and time again that AI isn't like other products. It's a risky business, and the consequences of getting it wrong can be far-reaching, particularly for marginalized groups."

advisors

[Darinbob]

Oh great, a team of "execs" as advisors. The people least likely to understand how their products work will advise each other.
("No fair!" they say, "I used to engineering and math before the Peter Principle promoted me to my well deserved C-level suite!")

Re:advisors

[Lendrick]

Seriously. Wake me up when somebody assembles a team of researchers and engineers to serve as their advisory council. I'd invest in that company.

Well Look At That...

[MightyMartian]

The wolves are building the hen house.

Re:

[jenningsthecat]

The wolves are building the hen house.

Damn! You beat me to it, though I was going to refer to the more traditional 'foxes guarding the henhouse'. But I think I like your version better.

point 1 no unions!

[Joe_Dragon]

point 1 no unions!
point 2 no OT PAY!

Their mission?

[RogueWarrior65]

Use AI serve up even more annoying ads. Meanwhile, actual content from your friends has dropped to nearly zero. At least X is entertaining in that it's not a sh*tshow but shows how big of a sh*tshow the rest of the world is. Like watching a slow motion train wreck and X is an 8K video display.

Ok...

[firewrought]

so we have the obligatory bitching and moaning about diversity and the obligatory hand-wringing about AI safety (come on, it's just math people), but I do have to ask... why these individuals? What's their AI expertise? Maybe TFA answers these questions, but it sure doesn't seem like a bunch of CEO's are the best group to advise on AI strategy (you know, for substantiative reasons related to their skills and technical experience, not the bullshit about their skin color or ability to pontificate on ethics).

Oh goody several members of the ruling elite

[rsilvergun]

I'm sure that they have my best interests at heart and would never get together and plan how to replace my job with a robot while building killer robots that will defend their estates and bunkers. No I'm sure that they're not going to do what every king and queen is done for thousands of years because that was a long time ago and my memory doesn't go that far back.

Re:Oh goody several members of the ruling elite

[Lendrick]

It's okay. Execs really only think in buzzwords anyway. They won't accomplish anything.

Alternate Title

[Osgeld]

Zuckerberg doesn't have a fucking clue, hires a bunch of yes men to tell him lies

news @ 11

Also not sure about the diversity angle, I am 100% for diversity in the workplace when things need to get done, but when I think of slimy con men jerking the boss off, its old fat white guys in slick suits... maybe I am old-fashioned

Maybe they should invent a device

[jwymanm]

That lets other races form groups to solve problems for themselves. You could then go and use a device to find that group and do something called reporting on the diversity of said group. It's not like they can't exist without Mark Zuckerberg. Same goes for every single diverse area. It's not like they have to be in ruins and in many cases they are also ran by diverse groups! This is not to say that it's not remarkable that it's all white people. I would actually half expect mostly people from India and As

Facebook can achieve zero importance

[NotEmmanuelGoldstein]

... will not be paid ...

Corporate advisory groups exist for 2 reasons: 1) To make the decisions no-one will like; 2) To tell the boss how profitable his new idea is.

Once, those reasons stop being important, the group is disbanded. It usually takes 12 months although past experience says Facebook/Meta can achieve zero importance in 9 months.

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[phantomfive]

It's intended to impress politicians that they are doing something reasonable, to avoid further regulation.

Goody.

[byronivs]

A new chapter of the church of the pink penis. Just the thing we need.

Sing Along

[A10Mechanic]

We're Knights of the Round Table, we steal whene'er we're able. We own your lives and take your jibes with doublespeak impeccable. We grift well here in Camelot with dogecoin, fear and spam a lot