Twenty-six current and former employees of Meta are suing the social media and technology company claiming it used artificial intelligence (AI) to target employees who were on leave during the company’s last round of mass layoffs.
Meta announced in April that it would lay off 10 percent of its workforce, which totaled about 8,000 employees. According to documents filed July 13 with the United States District Court Northern California District in Oakland, the Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram parent didn’t consult with managers when it compiled its lists of terminated employees but instead employed a constellation of AI systems and agents to rank and score employees targeted for the reduction in force….