Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
Meta's AI-fueled layoffs of 8,000 employees targeted workers with disabilities and those who took protected medical or family leaves, alleged a lawsuit filed by 26 employees who were selected for termination. Meta used internal AI tools to select employees for layoffs, according to the complaint filed yesterday by 26 "Doe" plaintiffs in US District Court for the Northern District of California. "Meta did not assemble the termination list through the considered judgment of managers who knew the w
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A lawsuit filed by 26 employees claims that a major technology company used artificial intelligence systems to select workers for layoffs rather than having managers make these decisions. The complaint alleges that the AI tools used to score and rank employees did not account for workers on protected medical or family leave or those with disabilities, which may have resulted in these employees being disproportionately selected for termination. The company denies the claims, stating that people, not AI, made the layoff decisions. The lawsuit seeks to stop the layoffs and calls for an independent audit of the selection process to recalculate employee scores using leave and disability-neutral criteria.
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