What do you base on your assumptions they still employ "hundreds"?
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@rorcde The article says the ethics team were already just 7 people. Maybe we're not meaning the same subject?
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@rorcde BTW, I'm not saying that I believe Microsoft is doing evil stuff or doesn't care about the impact of their AI systems. I just said the optics of "double down on AI" / "lay off ethics team" don't look good.
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@rorcde Are you aware of the story around Timnit Gebru and Google?