Meta 被指控使用有偏见的 AI 工具大规模裁员，遭前员工起诉

据路透社此前报道（https://www.reuters.com/world/meta-used-ai-target-workers-with-medical-conditions-layoffs-former-employees-2026-07-14/），26名前Meta员工对公司提起诉讼，声称公司利用人工智能工具对休假员工进行不公平裁员。在诉讼中（https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28475884-former-employees-v-meta/#document/p1），员工们指控Meta根据由内部AI工具“星座”收集的绩效数据决定解雇哪些员工，但未将正在休产假或医疗假的员工排除在排名系统之外：

结果是，休受保护假期的员工被裁员的比例过高，其得分不仅未考虑他们的保护假期，实际上还因行使合法休假权利而受到了处罚。

诉讼中提到的裁员发生在五月，作为Meta削减10%员工计划的一部分（/tech/917690/meta-is-laying-off-10-percent-of-its-staff），约涉及8,000名员工。Meta的前员工声称公司使用了一个名为Metamate的内部AI助手（https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-assistant-helps-employees-performance-reviews-2025-11）、员工训练的AI代理、显示AI令牌使用情况的内部仪表盘以及其他工具来“对员工进行评分、排名并选择纳入解雇名单”。

诉讼指控Meta违反了联邦和州法律，这些法律禁止雇主因员工休受保护假期而解雇其员工。Meta发言人Tracy Clayton对The Verge表示：“这些指控没有依据，也不基于事实。劳动力管理和组织决策是由人作出的，而不是AI。”

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 ：https://www.reuters.com/world/meta-used-ai-target-workers-with-medical-conditions-layoffs-former-employees-2026-07-14/. In the lawsuit：https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28475884-former-employees-v-meta/#document/p1, 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 their legal rights to these leaves.

The layoffs mentioned in the lawsuit occurred in May as part of Meta’s plans to slash 10 percent of its staff：/tech/917690/meta-is-laying-off-10-percent-of-its-staff, or around 8,000 workers. Meta’s former employees allege the company used an internal AI assistant, called Metamate：https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-assistant-helps-employees-performance-reviews-2025-11, employee-trained AI agents, internal dashboards displaying AI token usage, and other tools to “score, rank, and select employees for inclusion on the termination list.”

The lawsuit accuses Meta of violating federal and state laws preventing employers from terminating workers for taking protected leave. “These claims lack merit and are not based on facts,” Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton tells The Verge . “Workforce management and organizational decisions were and are made by people, not AI.”