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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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[-] cheribbit@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

GOOD FOR THEM. I AM SO PROUD OF THEM

[-] slowmotionrunner@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] UltraBlack@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

This is what happens when you read and watch hamas' war propaganda online.

There are photos and videos of russian soldiers dying. Does that give ukraine the fault for this war?

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[-] doodledup@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

I'm very confused. Can somebody explain how any of that makes any sense?

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