TL;DR: There's a team of 4 members working on an AI model to show their managers a list of potential layoff candidates. Reading it brought a chill down my spine, so I thought to share it here and get your thoughts.

The scary stuff:

We have an internal system where employees productivity score and a range of datapoints about them over the years is maintained. Manager told us to use these parameters as well as their chat messages (specially keywords like "u", "ur", spaces before punctuation, and other grammar rules to be flagged), whether or not they work from home, commit messages, login/logout times, etc. as parameters to determine who should be on the top of the list to be layed off, so I guess the 4 of us are safe since other team members don't know what was assigned to us.

I raised ethical concerns and they said they need to layoff people next month due to funding issues, and that they only want to lay off people who are not adding much value to the company compared to other employees so they don't want the layoffs to be random. They think this is more fair than random, and that they just want recommendations and HR will ultimately decide manually.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/15fn53t/company_asked_us_4_people_to_work_on_an_ai_model