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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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[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 163 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

Thank you, Lemmy. I can't find this on the technology subreddit. Reddit Is complacent.

attempted to post the link on technology subreddit. It said that it has been posted too many times. I went and sorted by new, and it's not visible.

Not too many years ago this would have been at the very top of the technology subreddit.

suspect for sure

[–] ugtug@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Most Reddit subs block comments or ban you outright if you mention Palestine or Israel. Reddit has taken censorship too far.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Speaking about using AI for genocide is "too political". Please keep the posts limited to Donald Trump golfing and tech leaders donating to Trump. And the US government using AI to track people (unless it is anti genocide protesters, that is political).

[–] PolarKraken@sh.itjust.works 67 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

You say complacent, I say complicit.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You say pervasive, and I say permissive [soft-shoe dance]

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Let's call the whole thing off!

[–] lemmy_acct_id_8647@lemmy.world 49 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I keep this shot as a badge of honour

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

What was the reason in your inbox?

[–] lemmy_acct_id_8647@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago

For "threatening violence" which apparently was due to a comment I made where I said I wouldn't piss on a Tesla fire if Musk's mom was inside.

[–] daddakamabb@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I am temp banned for saying I hope a covid denier gets covid multiple times and is intubated each time to experience the panic of possibly never waking up again. I incited violence. I just hope they got to experience the trauma that I've seen working at a hospital. It might be real to them then.

[–] lemmy_acct_id_8647@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Keep it up. With a can do attitude and a pocket full of dreams, you too can achieve this distinction one day 😅

[–] fed0sine@lemm.ee 10 points 18 hours ago

I thought I read it as complicit the first time.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 19 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1jrhu8w/microsoft_employee_disrupts_50th_anniversary_and/ Not that hard to find. Nice spiel about reddit though. Very convincing.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Well, he said most...

Anyway, i was surprised to find out that the main news sub, https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/ , does not censor those things

[–] Zeddex@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 hours ago

Just wait. It's only a matter of time before the post gets deleted and the account gets banned. If you think reddit isn't censoring posts you're just not paying attention.

[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Glad you could find it.