Article by Ananya Bhattacharya: “Already, seven in 10 social media images are AI-generated using tools like Midjourney or DALL-E, and eight in 10 content recommendations rely on AI. Nearly half of all social media content by businesses will be AI-generated in 2026. Meanwhile, AI tools are leaving behind non-English speakers.
The key question now is whether the Oversight Board has the capacity and regional reach to identify systemic harms at scale and create precedents that actually shifts product and policy decisions, Rachel Adams, founder and CEO of the Global Center on AI Governance and author of The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality, told Rest of World.
What won’t work is if you see some of the early AI safety boards that some of the big majors set up — they’ve got all American boards. That is not going to work.”
“With AI-generated content and AI-driven enforcement and moderation, the volume, velocity, and cross-language nature of problems the board was established to monitor and conduct oversight over have exploded,” Adams said. “That would require either a larger board, or a stronger surrounding capacity, in terms of research, regional advisory mechanisms, and faster procedures for urgent situations.”
The Oversight Board is not the first line of defense. Moderation across Meta’s platforms happens at both a machine and a human level (and sometimes both). Users who are unhappy with the moderation outcomes can appeal to the independent, external board. Not all of the appeals will be addressed — the board takes on only the cases it believes will have the biggest lasting impact. In addition to the 21 board members, the Oversight Board has staff members from around the world, and it leans on professional translation services and country context briefings to deliver decisions…(More)”.
