Here’s how Meta decides who to lay off—and it claims to not use AI

In a new filing, Meta was forced to disclose its criteria for selecting employees for layoffs—including performance ratings. But what if AI adoption impacts performance reviews?

Twenty-six employees at Meta who were recently laid off made a bold claim in a lawsuit last week: They alleged the company had used AI to select people for layoffs, disproportionately impacting people who had taken leave or those with disabilities. The lawsuit identified a number of factors that the plaintiffs claimed had influenced the layoff selection process, from an internal AI assistant to dashboards that tallied employees’ AI token usage.