According to a report from Mobilegamer.biz, former staff members are reporting that Microsoft is replacing their roles with artificial intelligence tools that were created by laid-off staff.

Software AI Fresh from telling laid-off employees to console themselves with AI, Microsoft doubles down by advertising Xbox jobs with pathetic AI image: 'So tone deaf I hope it is satire' ...

After Microsoft laid off 9,000 workers last week, 4% of its global workforce, one employee had an unusual message for those let go: turn to ChatGPT to help relieve the emotional burden.

In other words, this is a classic AI-generated image, aka slop. The thing is, this is being posted by a senior figure at Xbox and is explicitly about hiring graphics designers.

Anonymous sources within the mobile developer King have said that staff who have been laid off as part of Microsoft's recent round of redundancies will be replaced by the AI tools that they helped ...

AI’s been a reoccurring backdrop to Microsoft’s decision to fire roughly 9,000 employees, including many across Xbox and its related gaming divisions.

07-07-2025 WORK LIFE 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 ...

The source also claims the total number of King employees laid off could be more than 200. Staff have been let go in the London, Barcelona, Stockholm and Berlin studios, as well as many ...

Matt Turnbull, Executive Producer at Xbox Games Studio Publishing, wrote a post that advised anyone who had lost or was losing their job to use AI tools, including Microsoft's own Copilot, for ...

Xbox exec suggests people use AI to lessen the pain of being laid off Microsoft has just laid off 9,000 people while investing $80 billion in AI By Rob Thubron July 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM 19 comments ...

An Xbox executive's suggestion that laid-off Microsoft employees use AI chatbots like ChatGPT for emotional support sparked backlash online, highlighting tensions as the company invests heavily in ...

Following the news that 9,000 people are being laid off at the company, one Xbox executive offered some questionable words of advice for people on their way out: Find solace in Microsoft Copilot.