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:
Maybe give the decision to the people who resided in this land before the Ottomans or British put the intentionally divisive borders that they’d come up with?
Yeah, there were never any wars in the middle east before the Ottomans or British came along. Right? Right!?
There has always been combat literally everywhere with humans. The main difference is that the decision to take part in that war was not already made on the people’s behalf by the US through the puppet governance they admitted to have placed their.
Especially when that decision usually benefit the US significantly by having the other country is in a state that allows additional control by the US.
How is that a reasonable approach? How would that solve anything?
I’m pretty sure most of those people are dead.