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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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[–] [email protected] 211 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Then Trump will deport her.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Software engineers are in oversupply these days

[–] [email protected] 116 points 3 days ago

Hopefully only fired.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

Edit: clarification.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

I drastically reduced it by switching to Linux.