Meta is being sued by 26 former employees who claim the company used biased AI tools to target workers on parental or medical leave for layoffs. The lawsuit alleges that Meta's AI system failed to exclude protected leave status, unfairly penalizing those employees. This raises concerns about AI fairness and ethical use in workforce management.
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A group of former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to choose which workers to lay off, including those on medical leave.
More than two dozen former employees claim Meta used AI to rank workers’ performance, but failed to exclude people on medical leave.