This feels pretty ominous.
, the ethics and society department is gone — a telling sign that Microsoft is more focused on profitability and getting AI-driven products to market than ensuring that those products remain a positive force for society as a whole.Most of their 30-person staff was reassigned way back in October, leaving just seven employees to manage the department.
The cuts were the reportedly result of pressure being applied from upper management including CTO Kevin Scott and CEO Satya Nadella, who were trying to "take these most recent OpenAI models and the ones that come after them and move them into customers' hands at a very high speed," according to a VP quoted byPer the report, the remaining employees were also told in the meeting that their department was just "evolving" and wouldn't be "going away.
Months later, though, they were all dismissed, along with the division — right as the company announced its
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