According to reports, Meta has disbanded its responsible AI (RAI) team as it allocates more resources to generative AI. The Information released this news today, citing an internal post it saw. It is reported that most members of the RAI team will be transferred to the company's generative AI product team, while others will focus on Meta's AI infrastructure. The company has often expressed its desire to develop AI responsibly and even has a dedicated page listing its "responsible AI pillars," including accountability, transparency, security, and privacy. The Information's report quoted Jon Carvill, representing Meta, as saying that the company will "continue to prioritize and invest in the development of safe and responsible AI." He added that although the team is being disbanded, these members will "continue to support work across Meta related to responsible AI development and usage." Earlier this year, the team underwent restructuring, with Business Insider reporting layoffs that made RAI a "shell of a team." The report continued to say that the RAI team, which has existed since 2019, had little autonomy, and its initiatives had to go through lengthy stakeholder negotiations to be implemented. The purpose of establishing RAI was to identify issues with its AI training methods, including whether the company's models were exposed to a diverse enough range of information to prevent issues like content moderation problems on the platform. The automation systems on Meta's social platform have led to numerous problems, such as Facebook translation issues resulting in wrongful arrests, WhatsApp AI sticker generation producing biased images given certain prompts, and Instagram algorithms aiding in the discovery of child sexual abuse material. Similar measures have been taken by companies like Meta and Microsoft earlier this year, as governments around the world rush to create regulatory roadmaps for AI development. The US government reached agreements with AI companies, and President Biden subsequently instructed government agencies to propose AI safety rules. Meanwhile, the European Union has published its AI principles and is still working towards its AI legislation.