Meta’s AI push causes anger, anxiety for employees, NYT reports

Meta is pushing its 78,000 workers to use AI tools and including their use of the technology in performance reviews, which comes as the company is eliminating positions to offset AI spending, the New York Times’ Kalley Huang, Eli Tan and Kate Conger report, citing current and former employees. Meta is also tracking the staff’s computer usage to feed and train its AI models, causing anger and anxiety as employees await news of whether they are impacted by job cuts, which are expected to be executed on May 20. Some staff said they no longer viewed Meta as a place for a long career, while others are looking for new jobs or trying to signal they want to be laid off for severance.