Facebook: AI will protect you

Artificial intelligence is a key part of everything Facebook does, from chat bots in Messenger to powering the personalized recommendations you get on apps like Instagram. But, as great as the technology is to create new and deeper experiences for users, Facebook says the most important role of AI is to keep its community safe. Today at F8, the company's Chief Technology Officer, Mike Schroepfer, highlighted how valuable the tech has become to combating abuse on its platform, including hate speech, bullying and terrorist content. Schroepfer pointed to stats Facebook revealed last month, which showed that its AI tools removed almost 2 million pieces of terrorist propaganda, with 99 percent of those being spotted before a human even reported them. Shroepfer said that, even though these are promising numbers, Facebook knows there's still plenty of work to be done and it needs to keep evolving the technology -- especially because the bad actors promoting this type of content keep getting smarter themselves.