Meta acknowledges 'critical risk' AI systems that are too dangerous to develop — here's what that means

Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the second day of testimony before Congress by Zuckerberg, 33, after it was reported that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign.

Meta's internal mantra, at least until 2014 (when it was still Facebook), was to "move fast and break things." Fast-forward over a decade and the blistering pace of AI development has seemingly got the company rethinking things a little bit.

A new policy document, spotted by TechCrunch, appears to show Meta taking a more cautionary approach. The company has identified a scenarios where "high risk" or "critical risk" AI systems are deemed too dangerous to release to the public in their present state.