Meta will monitor U.S. employees' keystrokes, mouse movements, and screenshots to train AI models

Meta announced it will deploy tracking software on work computers that records employee keystrokes, mouse movements, and takes periodic screenshots of screen content—all to feed data into AI training systems. The software runs only on work-related apps and websites, according to an internal memo.

Unlike typical employee monitoring (which flags time-wasting), this captures the raw activity patterns of how humans actually work—the thinking pauses, the trial-and-error sequences, the decision-making moments—so Meta's AI can learn to mimic real workplace behavior instead of just text patterns.

If you work at Meta, your daily work habits are now training data for the company's AI. This means Meta's future AI assistants will be shaped by what Meta employees do, raising questions about whether tools trained this way will work well for people outside Meta—or whether your own employer might adopt similar tracking to build AI tuned to your industry.