Microsoft 50 Cutted birthday party by employees who protest against the use of artificial intelligence

in MicrosoftCelebrating the fiftieth anniversary on Friday, a software engineer in the company’s artificial intelligence department boycotted the event with a message: stop allowing the Israeli army to use Microsoft Ai products.

At the time, Microsoft Ai was the Microsoft Ai CEO.

“Mustafa, you are a shame,” the employee, Ibtihal AbousSad, is walking towards the theater in the event in Redmond, Washington. “You claim that you are interested in using artificial intelligence forever, but Microsoft sells the IDF weapons to the Israeli army. Fifty thousand people have died, and Microsoft operates this genocide in our region.”

Suleiman replied, acknowledging the protesters.

“You are a shame on you. You are importing war. Stop using artificial intelligence for genocide, lined up. Stop using artificial intelligence in genocide in our area. You have blood on your hands. Both Microsoft have blood on her hands.”

The employee, who works on the Microsoft AI, was quickly accompanied by the Microsoft AI.

Shortly after the interruption, AbousSad sent an email, which was displayed by CNBC, to Soleyman and other Microsoft CEOs, including CEO Satia NadilaFinance Chairman Amy Hood, Coel Carolina Deepy Hap and Brad Smith, Chairman of the company.

“I spoke today because after I learned that Org was working to operate the genocide of my people in Palestine, I have not seen any other moral choice,” Abu Sadd wrote in the email. “This is especially true when I saw how Microsoft tried to suppress and suppress any opposition from my colleagues in the work who tried to raise this issue. Over the year and a half last year, the Arab, Palestinian and Muslim community was silenced in Microsoft in talking about them, only behaving, as he led before, and acted in corrosion.

A Microsoft spokesman said the company is committed to adhering to the highest standards of commercial practices.

“We offer many ways for all the voices that must be heard. It is important, to ask that this be done in a way that does not cause disruption. If this happens, we ask the participants to move,” the spokesman said.

In recent months, artificial intelligence companies have been on the military use of their products and continued deals with the Defense Industry Giants and the Ministry of Defense.

In November Baldir I announced a partnership with Amazon Web services to provide American intelligence and defense agencies by accessing Claude AI forms from humans. Palantir has recently signed a five -year -old new deal worth 100 million dollars to expand the scope of US military access to the MAVEN AI Warfare program.

Openai and Anduril announced a partnership that allows the Defense Technology Company to spread advanced artificial intelligence systems for “national security missions”. and last monthScale AI made a deal with the Ministry of Defense for the AI’s pioneering agent program with millions of dollars.

AbousSad wrote in the email that after I started working on Microsoft Ai platforms, she was excited to contribute to “advanced AI technology and its applications for the benefit of humanity.” But she wrote: “I did not inform me that Microsoft will sell my work to the army and the Israeli government.”

“I did not register to write a code that violates human rights,” he wrote, adding a link to “No Azure to separate the apartheid“Seek.

In a separate event of Microsoft with CEOs on the same day, another software engineer, Vaniya Agrawal, stopped a letter from Nadella with a similar protest.

Agrawal then wrote in an email to the executives that it would resign from the company.

“Maybe you have seen me stand early today to summon Satia during his speech on the fiftieth anniversary of Microsoft,” she wrote in the email, which CNBC watched. “Over the past 1.5 years, it has become more aware of the growing role of Microsoft in the military industrial complex.”

Agrawal said Microsoft “is complicit” as “the digital weapons factory that works to operate monitoring, racist semester and genocide.”

“By working in this company, we are all complicit.”

“Even if we do not work directly in AI or Azure, our work is an implicit support, and our companies only nourish the system.” It included an invitation to work to sign the same Seam.

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