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Mark Zuckerberg admitted Meta made mistakes in its AI restructuring and will likely make more, amidst declining employee morale
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He reiterated that they don’t expect further layoffs this year but won’t overpromise.
“Given the complexity of these changes, we’ve made mistakes and will almost certainly make more,” he said. “I don’t want to overpromise because the world is changing in ways that are out of our control,” he added.
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He said the 7,000 employees transferred to the newly created AI initiatives serve as a backup plan if they make mistakes in some places.
“By creating important new roles for people, this also allowed us to shrink the size of teams knowing that if we make mistakes in some places, then we could transfer some people back,” Zuckerberg said.
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Zuckerberg was addressing declining morale at the company, especially in the Applied AI team where more than 6,500 employees feel dissatified with what they are doing.
“It’s literally the gulag,” one of the employees claims. “You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week."