Meta CTO says employee-tracking data landed ‘where it wasn’t supposed to go’

Meta’s chief technology officer has given the fullest account yet of the mishap that forced the company to halt its most contentious AI project, the keystroke-logging scheme it calls the Model Capability Initiative.

Andrew Bosworth said a researcher had moved sensitive employee data somewhere it was never meant to sit, though he insisted there was no outside intrusion.

Speaking to The Atlantic chief executive Nicholas Thompson in an interview released on Wednesday and filmed in late June, Bosworth described the data as “quite secure,” with only a handful of people able to reach it. The trouble, he said, came from within.

It was the latest turn in a saga that has run from tracking software on staff laptops to a company-wide pause.

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