UK campaigners raise alarm over report of Meta plan to use automation for risk checks

Ofcom considering the concerns' raised after claim that up to 90% of risk assessments will be carried out by AI

Internet safety campaigners have urged the UK's communications watchdog to limit the use of artificial intelligence in crucial risk assessments after a report that Mark Zuckerberg's Meta was planning to automate checks.

Ofcom said it was considering the concerns" raised by the campaigners' letter, after a report last month that up to 90% of all risk assessments at the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp would soon be carried out by AI.