XBox exec suggests Microsoft laid off employees ask AI for help

In a deleted LinkedIn post Matt Turnbull suggested employees use AI to help with the “emotional load” of layoffs.

Last week, Microsoft laid off about 9,100 workers, which came just months after the company announced it would invest $80 billion in data centers for Artificial Intelligence. The impact of the job cuts was widely felt, particularly in the gaming sector of Microsoft. However, in the wake of the company axing thousands of workers, one executive gave some pretty ill-timed advice: he told the folks who lost their jobs to AI to, ya know, turn to AI to help them cope. Yikes.