Microsoft’s Satya Nadella slams company exec for outlining plan to ‘make people addicted’ to Scout AI tool

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella slammed one of the software giant’s own executives for outlining a plan to “make people addicted” to a new AI tool called “Scout.”

The rebuke from Nadella, which was posted on an internal message board, included a link to a report by tech news outlet 404 Media, which obtained a copy of a memo written by Microsoft corporate vice president Omar Shahine.

In the memo, Shahine – who is leading the team responsible for building “Scout” – outlined a three-phase plan to transform the tool from “from addictive app to agentic platform.”

The first phase of the plan was to “make people addicted” by adding features that make “people depend on it daily.”

“This is absolutely a non goal! If anything we are doing the exact opposite. We want to make sure AI empowers and adds real value to human endeavor and broad economic…