During a visit to Japan, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, where they discussed the risks associated with generative AI, as per a government spokesman on Wednesday.
Zuckerberg is on a mini-tour of Asia that includes stops in Japan, India and South Korea, where he traveled on Tuesday night
Zuckerberg and Kishida met on Tuesday and “discussed a broad range of topics including the status of AI’s technological advancement… (and) the risk surrounding generative AI”, top Japanese government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters on Wednesday.
Japanese media quoted Zuckerberg as saying: “We had a good, productive conversation about AI and the future of technology.”
“I’m really excited for the work that is happening here in Japan,” he said after the 30-minute meeting.
Spearheaded by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, generative artificial intelligence is a technology that can conjure up text, images and audio from simple prompts in just seconds.
Its rapid development has been heralded as potentially revolutionary for everything from video games to politics — but with negative as well as positive consequences.
Meta was one of 20 major tech firms, including OpenAI, to sign a pledge this month to crack down on AI content intended to deceive voters ahead of crucial elections around the world this year.
Tech groups had previously agreed to use a common watermarking standard that would tag images generated by AI applications such as ChatGPT, Meta’s Llama, Microsoft’s Copilot and Google’s Gemini.
