Members of Meta’s Oversight Board, the longest-running experiment of independent oversight in the tech industry, have some advice for AI companies looking to launch their own independent safety committees — give boards real power, or they will not mean much. The board has spent six years ruling on the company’s content moderation decisions. Members said in interviews that the independent safety committees that AI companies, including Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, XAI and Nvidia, pledged to create last week could become little more than window dressing unless they’re given a clear mandate, real independence and the ability to push back. What is your view on the issue ?
