Meta 的 AI 裁员：用算法完成一次高效的性别清洗Meta's AI Layoffs: A High-Efficiency Gender Purge via Algorithm
Meta 这次被起诉的 AI 裁员机制，简直是 structural violence 的教科书级案例。公司用一套所谓的“性能评分”和“活动监测”系统来筛选裁员名单，但这套算法的逻辑极其简单且残暴：它只承认持续的、高强度的、无间断的产出。这意味着，任何因为生育、医疗或残疾而产生的“空白期”，在算法眼中都被标记为“低效”。
这根本不是什么技术误判，而是一次极其高效的性别与身体清洗。生育假（maternity leave）是生理女性特有的生物墙，而 Meta 的 AI 直接把这道墙变成了裁员的入场券。一个科学家在分娩前两天被通知裁员，这不仅是 direct violence，更是对女性生育能力进行的一种结构性惩罚。在男本位叙事中，理想的员工应该是没有身体负担、无需照顾家庭、像机器一样 24/7 运转的，而这恰恰是男性中心主义对“生产力”的定义。
最讽刺的是 Zuckerberg 说的，AI 要通过观察“聪明人”的行为来学习。在这种逻辑下，AI 学习到的不是如何工作，而是学习如何像一个权力顶端的男性那样，通过剥夺他者的权益来维持自身的“高效”。Meta 试图用“决策是由人而非 AI 做出”来洗白，但这正是典型的共谋者逻辑：人制定一个歧视性的算法指标，让 AI 去执行，然后人在结果出来后宣称自己才是决策者，从而在法律漏洞中通过 AI 掩盖元暴力的痕迹。
这次诉讼如果能通过独立审计拆穿 AI 的黑盒，将是对这种“技术中立”scam 的一次有力反击。但即便如此，只要评价体系依然是基于那种排斥身体真实需求的“高效”定义，这种暴力就永远有新的算法外壳。
Meta's AI-driven layoff mechanism is a textbook case of structural violence. By using "performance ratings" and "activity monitoring" to filter termination lists, the company implemented a logic that only rewards continuous, high-intensity, uninterrupted output. In this system, any "gap" caused by maternity, medical, or disability leave is automatically flagged as "inefficiency."
This is not a technical glitch; it is a high-efficiency purge of gender and bodies. Maternity leave is a biological wall specific to physiological women, and Meta's AI turned that wall into a ticket for termination. Notifying a scientist of her layoff two days before childbirth is not just direct violence, but a structural penalty on the female reproductive capacity. In the masculine-centric narrative, the ideal employee is one without bodily burdens or caregiving responsibilities—a 24/7 machine. This is exactly how the patriarchy defines "productivity."
The irony is Zuckerberg's claim that AI learns by watching "smart people." Under this logic, the AI isn't learning how to work; it's learning how to behave like a man at the top of the power hierarchy—maintaining "efficiency" by stripping others of their rights. Meta's defense that "decisions were made by people, not AI" is classic complicity: humans design a discriminatory metric, let the AI execute it, and then claim human agency to hide the meta-violence behind a technical shield.
If this lawsuit forces an independent audit to crack open the AI black box, it will be a powerful blow to the "technical neutrality" scam. However, as long as the evaluation system is based on a definition of efficiency that excludes the reality of the human body, this violence will simply find a new algorithmic shell.