Microsoft Replaced Its Editors With Robots. A Week Later, They've Been Accused Of Racism

At the end of May 2020, Microsoft took the decision to sack dozens of journalists in favor of replacing them with artificial intelligence (AI). The journalists and editors fired ran the MSN News website, the automatic homepage of the Microsoft Edge browser. The site doesn't write news itself, but draws news from other sources and splits advertising revenue with the original publishers. It used to be curated by humans, who would select stories adhering to their editorial guidelines and edit articles, photos, and headlines wherever necessary. Now, just a few weeks after replacing those humans with software, robots at MSN News have been accused of racism by UK band Little Mix member Jade Thirlwall, after MSN posted a story of her opening up about the racism she experienced at school, accompanied by an image of fellow Little Mix bandmate Leigh-Anne Pinnock.