Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs

A radical of 26 erstwhile Meta employees is suing the institution implicit claims that it utilized AI tools to unfairly people workers connected permission with layoffs, arsenic reported earlier by Reuters. In the lawsuit, the employees allege Meta determined which workers to disregard based connected show information collected by a "constellation" of interior AI tools, but failed to exclude those connected parental oregon aesculapian permission from its ranking system:

The effect was that employees who took protected leaves were disproportionately selected for layoff, based connected scoring that not lone failed to relationship for their protected leaves, but successful effect penalized the employees for exercising thei …

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