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At MicrosoftCelebration of the 50th anniversary on Friday, software engineer in the company’s artificial intelligence department interrupted the event: stop allowing Israeli military to use AI Microsoft products.
At the time, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman made a speech.
“Mustafa, ashamed of you,” said the Ibbihal Abusad, when she was on stage at the event in Redmond, Washington. “You claim that you care about the use of AI forever, but Microsoft sells weapons to AI Israeli military. Fifty thousand people have died, and Microsoft provides this genocide in our region.”
Saleiman replied, acknowledging the protest.
Abusad continued: “Shame on you. You are military income. Stop using the II for genocide, Mustafa. Stop using the II for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All in Microsoft have blood on your hands.”
The Microsoft AI Engine Engine Engine Engine employee was quickly accompanied.
Soon Satya NadelThe Head of Finance Amy Hood, Head of Operational Caroli Dibek Hape and Brad Smith, president of the company.
“I made a speech today because, after learning that my body was nourishing the genocide of my people in Palestine, I did not see another moral choice,” Abusad wrote in an e -mail. “This is especially true when I witnessed how Microsoft tried to stop and suppress any disagreement with my colleagues who have tried to raise this problem. Over the past year and a half our Arabic, Palestinian and Muslim community in Microsoft has been silenced, frightened, persecuted and not recorded.
Microsoft’s press -secretary said the company is seeking to follow the highest standards of business practice.
“We offer a lot of avenues for all the votes that will be heard. It is important that we ask that it be done in such a way that it does not cause business violations. If this happens, we ask the participants to move,” the secretary -secretary said.
In recent months, AI companies went back to military use of their products and made deals with the giants of the defense industry and the Ministry of Defense.
In November anthropic and defensive contractor Tippin announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services providing US intelligence and defense agency access to AI Anthropic’s Claude AI models. Recently, the tipper has signed a new five -year deal worth $ 100 million to expand US military access to its Maven AI Warfare program.
Openai and Anduril have announced a partnership that allows the AI -Mission Defense Company to deploy the advanced AI systems. And Last monthAI scale has made a deal with the Ministry of Defense under the multimillion -dollar AI flagship program.
Abusad wrote in an e -mail that after she started working on AI Microsoft platforms, she was excited to contribute to the “advanced AI technology and its applications for the benefit of humanity.” But she wrote: “I was not told that Microsoft would sell its work to Israeli military and government.”
“I did not subscribe to write a code that violates human rights,” – wrote Abusad, adding a link to A “No blue for apartheid“A petition.
At a separate event, Microsoft with executives on the same day another programmer, Vodni Agra, interrupted a speech with Nadel with a similar protest.
Agrawal then wrote in an e -mail to the executives that she would resign from the company.
“You may have seen me performing earlier today to call Satu during my speech at the 50th anniversary of Microsoft,” she wrote in an e -mail that looked at CNBC. “In the last 1.5 years, I have become more aware of Microsoft’s increasing role in the military-industrial complex.”
Agrawal said Microsoft is an “complicit” as “digital weapons manufacturer, which powers, apartheid and genocide.”
She added that “working in this company, we are all accomplices.”
“Even if we do not work directly in AI or Azure, our work is a silent support, and our corporate rise only fueled the system,” Agro wrote. She included a call to the action to sign the same petition.
