- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.ml
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:
Thank you, Lemmy. I can’t find this on the technology subreddit. Reddit Is complacent.
Most Reddit subs block comments or ban you outright if you mention Palestine or Israel. Reddit has taken censorship too far.
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).
Just posting on r/showerthoughts is hard enough.
You say complacent, I say complicit.
I thought I read it as complicit the first time.
You say pervasive, and I say permissive [soft-shoe dance]
Let’s call the whole thing off!
I keep this shot as a badge of honour
What was the reason in your inbox?
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.
Keep it up. With a can do attitude and a pocket full of dreams, you too can achieve this distinction one day 😅
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.
I got temp banned today because I replied to someone and said that using ivermectin would probably kill them.
I’m done, so fucking done.
Glad you could find it.