Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Two engineers for the Pinterest site no longer are employed after creating a software tool to track the company's downsizing effort amid its increased use of artificial intelligence.
Pinterest Chief Executive Officer Bill Ready on Jan. 27 said about 700 workers -- equal to less than 15% of its workforce -- were to be fired while the company adopts an "AI-forward approach." The firings are expected to occur through September.
"Healthy debate and dissent are expected," Ready told workers during a company meeting. "That's how we make our decisions, but there's a clear line between constructive debate and behavior that's obstructionist."
The San Francisco-based tech firm did not identify which workers and internal departments would be affected, so the two fired engineers wrote a software script to track the firings.
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