Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs
Former Meta employees have filed a lawsuit alleging that the company used biased AI tools to target workers on parental or medical leave for layoffs. Meta has denied these claims, asserting that workforce decisions are made by humans rather than algorithms.
A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on leave with layoffs, as reported earlier by Reuters. In the lawsuit, the employees allege Meta determined which workers to dismiss based on performance data collected by a “constellation” of internal AI tools, but failed to exclude those on parental or medical leave from its ranking system:
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