Twenty-six employees at Meta are suing the company over its alleged reliance on artificial intelligence to select workers for recent mass layoffs.
The lawsuit claims that AI technology played a central role in identifying which employees to cut during workforce reductions, says the complaint.
“On information and belief, Meta used a constellation of internal artificial-intelligence-assisted systems to score, rank, and select employees for inclusion on the termination list.
These systems include: “Metamate,” an internal large-language-model assistant; employee-trained “second brain” agents that ingest each employee’s communications and documents to replicate the employee’s output; algorithmic productivity scoring drawn from keystroke, screen-content, mouse, browser-history, messaging, and email data captured continuously from Meta-issued devices; internal dashboards displaying employee-level AI-token consumption; and AI-assisted performance-review and calibration tools that have substantially supplanted the prior manager-driven calibration process.”
Meta has strongly denied the allegations and stated that it does not use AI in this manner for layoff decisions.
Employees involved in the suit seek greater accountability and clarity on the specific decision-making methods employed by the company.
The plaintiffs seek a preliminary injunction to halt the imminent layoffs, an independent audit of Meta’s algorithmically assisted selection process and other relief while pursuing their discrimination claims in arbitration.
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