It seems that technology has already begun its path towards the acquisition of some of the functions of humans, and although this is not a new thing, new news coming from Microsoft talks about the American company giving up thousands of jobs from its human employees in favor of robots, which increases the volume of concerns.
According to press reports, Microsoft decided to dispense with dozens of journalists working on its MSN News site, and instead to compensate them with an artificial intelligence program that, according to the company, is able to carry out the tasks assigned to journalists, and therefore, after publishing and creating articles on the Microsoft News platform It will be automatic, as Microsoft believes this kind of task does not require human intervention.
On the sidelines of this decision, Microsoft announced that this matter falls within the framework of evaluating its economic model and that this matter may lead to increased investment in some sites and re-employment in other sites. The company also indicated that this step was previously programmed and has nothing to do with the coronavirus epidemic.
On the other hand, the dismissed journalists doubted that the artificial intelligence software was unable to deal with questionable content or judge the value of the news published, most important to the user.