Meta is walking back its stance on forcing engineers to join a task force focused on AI training, according to an internal memo obtained by Business Insider and four people familiar with the matter. Last month, Meta reassigned 7,000 employees to units such as an Applied AI task force to help train Meta's coming AI models. On Wednesday, Meta sent a memo about this task force, saying the company will now "defer to each individual's choice." The company sent the email to employees who had been "