Mark Zuckerberg advocates for full employee surveillance at Meta✴ as a method of training artificial intelligence, although the accuracy of this information is questionable

Meta explains the purpose of recording employees’ actions

At a meeting on April 30, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered an employee’s question about how the company collects data on its workers’ work for training AI models. He responded with a six‑minute speech that the human‑rights organization *More Perfect Union* published along with the purported recording.

What Zuckerberg said
> “We use it to load a huge amount of material into the AI model and give it the opportunity to learn how smart people use computers when performing tasks. If we can do that, I think it will become a big advantage.”

He emphasized that the goal is to show the model how “smart” employees solve problems, not simply to collect performance data.

> “If we’re trying to teach the model to program, having employees with tools and solutions for tasks will significantly increase its ability to write code faster than competitors without thousands of qualified engineers. And another example: the system needs to be good at using computers, so we need to observe how truly smart people work with them. That’s basically what we’re doing.”

How the information will be used
Zuckerberg assured that recording employees’ actions is not intended for monitoring them, but he did not clarify whether the data are anonymized. He added:

> “You know, it’s maximally simplified. It’s like some data weren’t used to monitor people’s actions, keep watch, track performance or something similar.”

Industry situation
Meta isn’t the only one collecting work actions for AI training. According to *The Information*, Microsoft and xAI also use similar methods.

Why Meta employees matter
The CEO noted that “smart” company workers bring more value than contractors:

> “One of the main observations: a significant portion of data is generated by contract firms. But overall, the average intelligence level of Meta employees is higher than the average level of people hired through those contractors.”

Conclusion

Meta collects data on its employees’ work to train AI models, claiming it will help models better understand and reproduce the actions of “smart” users. The company says this data won’t be used for employee control, but details about anonymity remain unclear. Similar practices are also applied by other tech giants.