Meta employees file lawsuit alleging AI redundancy selection

By Jo Faragher for Personnel Today
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

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In a statement, Meta said the claims “lack merit”. “Workforce management and organizational decisions were and are made by people, not AI,” it added.

Dr Ilia Kolochenko, a lawyer and founder of cybersecurity ImmuniWeb, said that regulating AI to prevent such issues could “inevitably produce more harm than good”.

“Sadly, banning or overregulating the use of AI in HR will merely aggravate both intentional and unintentional discrimination,” he said.

“Automated HR systems have existed for many decades, assisting organisations to make decisions on their workforce.

“With the current trend to restrict or even entirely ban AI in HR decision-making processes, most organisations will either conceal the use of AI or shift back to non-AI systems, especially in those jurisdictions that have no GDPR-like protection against automated decision-making on human subjects (with or without AI).” Read Full Article