Meta will use employees' mouse and keyboard data to train its AI

Meta is rolling out a new tool called Model Capability Initiative (MCI) that will monitor how employees use their computers. The goal is to collect mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes to train their AI models.

Internal documents reveal that the aim is for the models to perform tasks they currently struggle with, like navigating complex interfaces or selecting options from dropdown menus. Employees will continue their daily work, unknowingly helping train the AI to become more accurate and efficient.

This initiative is part of a broader shift at Meta to compete with AI giants like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. The company has renamed this effort as the Agent Transformation Accelerator, emphasizing that humans will mainly supervise AI systems that handle most tasks.

In an internal memo, Andrew Bosworth explained that employees will mainly review and guide AI agents, which will do most of the work. Meta also confirmed that data collected through MCI will be used solely for training models, although details about what information is excluded remain unclear, raising privacy concerns.

Meta is also pushing its staff to use AI agents for programming and other tasks, even if it slows down their work initially. Ultimately, the company seems focused on replacing many workers with digital agents trained on their own data, aiming to cut costs and streamline operations.