Meta Shifts to AI for Product Risk Reviews

Meta is moving to automate the majority of its internal risk assessments using artificial intelligence. Until now, most updates to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp underwent manual reviews to ensure they would not harm users or violate laws. That is about to change.

According to a report published by TechCrunch, Meta plans to have AI handle up to 90 percent of these assessments. The company says this will speed up product development while still keeping humans in the loop for sensitive or unfamiliar issues.

This shift is part of a wider push inside Meta to cut costs and streamline decision making across its platforms. Engineers will soon be asked to input risk-related information into a system that scores each update and determines whether human review is needed. If not, the feature could go live automatically.

Critics argue that AI cannot yet fully understand complex social or political risks, especially those tied to misinformation, privacy, or cultural harm. Meta’s executives have acknowledged that risk automation will be a gradual process, and that human judgment will remain essential for edge cases.

Full story: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/31/meta-plans-to-automate-many-of-its-product-risk-assessments/

Alternate source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/meta-to-handover-most-of-product-risk-assessments-to-ai/articleshow/121541117.cms