Meta has sent layoff notices to about 8,000 workers, or 10% of the social media giant’s workforce. Another 7,000 Meta workers will be reassigned to new artificial intelligence initiatives. The layoffs come just weeks after CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed in an all-hands meeting that Meta is using an artificial intelligence data tracking program to train an AI model that will replace many of its workers. A recording of Zuckerberg’s comments was obtained by the news organization More Perfect Union.

Mark Zuckerberg: “So, we’re in a phase where basically the AI models learn from having really — from watching really smart people do things. And if you’re trying to get it to be able to — be able to do certain capabilities, having it be able to observe really smart people doing those things is very important.”