Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs

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Twenty-six former Meta employees have filed a lawsuit alleging that the company used biased AI tools to target workers on protected leave for mass layoffs. The lawsuit claims internal AI systems unfairly penalized employees on parental or medical leave.

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: The result was that employees who took protected leaves were disproportionately selected for layoff, based on scoring that not only failed to account for their protected leaves, but in effect penalized the employees for exercising thei … Read the full story at The Verge.