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Microsoft Lays Off Team That Taught Employees How to Make AI Tools Responsibly
Said John Montgomery, Microsoft's corporate vice president of AI, the group is not going away, but is "evolving toward putting more of the energy within the individual product teams that are building the services and the software."
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Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization as part of recent layoffs that affected 10,000 employees across the company, Platformer has learned.
The move leaves Microsoft without a dedicated team to ensure its AI principles are closely tied to product design at a time when the company is leading the charge to make AI tools available to the mainstream, current and former employees said.
Microsoft still maintains an active Office of Responsible AI, which is tasked with creating rules and principles to govern the company's AI initiatives. The company says its overall investment in responsibility work is increasing despite the recent layoffs.
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