At just over a year old, Microsoft AI is one of the tech giant’s newest experiments. The research laboratory oversees the firm’s consumer AI products, which includes Microsoft Copilot—its Gen AI chatbot which runs on OpenAI’s large language models.
Yet Liz Danzico, Microsoft AI’s vice-preisent of design, noted that not all of her design and research team, which numbers about 200 employees within the broader lab, weren’t AI-native.
“We created a goal for our organization—that every person in the studio will become AI-native by the end of the fiscal year,” Danzico said during the Fortune Brainstorm Design conference in Macau on Tuesday,
Danzico said she helped put together an in-house AI course for her team, and that the response had been “tremendously positive.” AI has found its way into Microsoft AI’s products and internal communications, and its workers have been “feeling more satisfied and energized about the possibilities with AI.”
They’ve also been less fearful and anxious about it, Danzico said, after “experimenting with multiple [AI] tools.”
