Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has outlined a plan to let artificial intelligence (AI) software review content posted on the social network.<\/p>\n
In a letter describing the plan, he said algorithms would eventually be able to spot terrorism, violence, bullying and even prevent suicide.<\/p>\n
He admitted Facebook had previously made mistakes in the content it had removed from the website.<\/p>\n
But he said it would take years for the necessary algorithms to be developed.<\/p>\n
The announcement has been welcomed by an internet safety charity, which had previously been critical of the way the social network had handled posts depicting extreme violence.<\/p>\n
In his 5,500-word letter discussing the future of Facebook, Mr Zuckerberg said it was impossible to review the billions of posts and messages that appeared on the platform every day.<\/p>\n
“The complexity of the issues we’ve seen has outstripped our existing processes for governing the community,” he said.<\/p>\n
He highlighted the removal of videos related to the Black Lives Matter movement and the historical napalm girl photograph from Vietnam as “errors” in the existing process.<\/p>\n
Facebook was also criticised in 2014, following reports that one of the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby spoke online about murdering a soldier, months before the attack.<\/p>\n