Why Robots Need Adult Supervision

Last week, Facebook announced it would hire 3,000 workers to monitor content streamed and posted on the vast social network. These legions of new staffers will augment the existing team members who keep an eye on the site, and they are expected to respond more quickly to requests to take down offensive postings than the site has been able to in the past. "If we're going to build a safe community, we need to respond quickly," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in (where else?) a Facebook post. "We're working to make these videos easier to report so we can take the right action sooner -- whether that's responding quickly when someone needs help or taking a post down." Think about that for a second.