Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs
中文摘要
Meta遭26名前员工起诉，指控其AI裁员工具存在偏见，不公平地针对了休病假或产假的员工。
English Summary
Meta faces a lawsuit from 26 former employees alleging its AI tools unfairly targeted workers on medical or parental leave during layoffs.
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.