Here’s how Meta decides who to lay off—and it claims to not use AI

In a new filing, Meta was forced to disclose its criteria for selecting employees for layoffs—including performance ratings. But what if AI adoption impacts performance reviews?

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Twenty-six employees at Meta who were recently laid off made a bold claim in a lawsuit last week: They alleged the company had used AI to select people for layoffs, disproportionately impacting people who had taken leave or those with disabilities. The lawsuit identified a number of factors that the plaintiffs claimed had influenced the layoff selection process, from an internal AI assistant to dashboards that tallied employees’ AI token usage. 

The judge in the case asked the company to explain its decision to terminate four of the plaintiffs whose immigration status was at risk, after denying........

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