Microsoft recently eliminated its entire team responsible for ensuring the ethical use of AI software, as part of the 10,000 job cuts announced in January. This decision may remove some guardrails meant to ensure Microsoft’s products that integrate machine-learning features meet the company’s standards for ethical use of AI, raising questions about the effects of controversial artificial-intelligence models on society. This move may be similar to when Bill Gates told his engineers in 2002 to make security an organization-wide priority.