Xbox producer recommends ChatGPT, Copilot prompts to laid off Microsoft staff

Losing your job is difficult enough. Getting AI prompts suggestions to ask chatbots for help is adding salt to injury. That’s exactly what followed wide layoffs at Microsoft’s Xbox unit, when an executive producer suggested that affected employees seek advice and emotional support from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots.

In a now-deleted LinkedIn post, Matt Turnbull, an executive producer at Xbox Games Studios Publishing, gave a list of prompts to reduce the “emotional and cognitive load” in difficult moments like these. The tech major last…