That AI is at fault here, is hidden as an aside in the article.
Sure, the humans should have been better in all this, but that AI even proposed such thing on that date, makes it seem ultra evil. If AI would be able to think or have a conscience, that is.
We have to be more deliberate with our language . the “AI” isn’t at fault because these things can’t be be held accountable. The marketing executives that chose to trust sparkly autocomplete instead of doing their jobs are at fault, and one might even extend the blame to include the companies that trained the model and provided the service.