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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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[–] RedPostItNote@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lmao. These are crazy billionaire pipe dreams.

Humans survive through community. Their wealth doesn’t mean shit.

[–] burak@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Humans survive through community": I agree with this but this is not an eternal truth. What that community looks like and consists of have always changed. Community has meant a group of people we hunted together in a jungle, our neighbors, and now more and more people you hang out online, a mixture of these or other groups etc. I can't see any reason why a community can't be a group of artificially intelligent robots in the near future. "Their wealth doesn’t mean shit": This is a take that is idealistic at best and juvenile at worst. It also reads like an oxymoron. "Wealth" "doesn't mean shit". Wealth means everything in many of the world's societies, western ones especially so.

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

They will be killed by their own AI for being oppressive, wasteful and illogical far faster than humans have turned on them.