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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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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 191 points 1 day ago (4 children)

She's about to be so fired. I wish her the best.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

She has a very sought after skillset. It might be rough for awhile but she'll land on her feet. Her time at the Big 5 is done but they're all evil anyway.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I think a lot of companies will see her name in a google search, think "risk" and disqualify her

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 minutes ago

Then Trump will deport her.

[–] darkknight@discuss.online 28 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I'm honestly surprised she was allowed to login to a msft computer again. Bc corporations historically suck.

Edit: clarification.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 37 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think she had prepared things before and moved quickly. I am amazed by her braveness and dedication and hope to improve by her example. I hope i can honor her commitment a tiny bit by working to further reduce my microsoft usage.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 minutes ago

I drastically reduced it by switching to Linux.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 107 points 1 day ago

Hopefully only fired.