Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during his visit to Japan, where they reportedly discussed the risks posed by generative artificial intelligence.
"We had a good, productive conversation about AI and the future of technology," local media quoted Zuckerberg as saying after the 30-minute meeting with Kishida.
"I'm really excited about the work that's being done here in Japan," the Facebook founder said after the talks, which reportedly included Joel Kaplan, Meta's vice president of global public policy.
Generative AI, spearheaded by OpenAI's ChatGPT, is a technology that can create text, image, and sound in seconds from simple prompts.
Its rapid development has been heralded as potentially revolutionary for all fields - from video games to politics - but it has both positive and negative consequences.
This month, Meta was one of 20 major tech firms, including OpenAI, to sign a pledge to combat artificial intelligence content aimed at misleading voters ahead of crucial elections around the world this year.
The tech groups previously agreed to use a common watermarking standard to mark images generated by AI apps such as ChatGPT, Meta's Llama, Microsoft's Copilot and Google's Gemini./BGNES
