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Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ (www.theverge.com)

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A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI.

“Shame on you,” said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. “You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands. How dare you all celebrate when Microsoft is killing children. Shame on you all.”

Sources at Microsoft tell The Verge that shortly after Aboussad was ushered out of Microsoft’s event, she sent an email to a number of email distribution lists that contain hundreds or thousands of Microsoft employees. Here is Aboussad’s email in full:

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (17 children)

TL;DR: she works on the speech to text AI product on Azure, which is used by Israel for some of their operations.

Look, I understand her desire to stop fighting in Palestine, but by that logic, we should also be protesting every software and computer manufacturer.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Focus on the worst offenders and create pressure to stop them from being complicit in such crimes.

See https://bdsmovement.net/bds-guidelines/bds-guide-strategic-campaigning-palestinian-rights for the way to do targeted boycotts and their impact.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

She's mostly asking her coworkers to speak up.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Bravo! Best of luck to her.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

GOOD FOR THEM. I AM SO PROUD OF THEM

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft will sell US citizens out in a second when the government tells them to. They will use their AI to round us up without batting an eye. They can not be trusted anymore.

Microsoft is now a threat to democracy and human existence. They are already working against us with governments. This is the tipping point that no one will hear about.

There is too much at stake and they are too big to fail. The government will viciously take down anyone spreading the truth. Continuing to support Microsoft is now a death sentence to democracy.

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