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Microsoft employees removed from town hall for protesting AI contracts with Israeli military (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

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Five Microsoft employees were removed during a company town hall meeting after staging a protest against the company’s contracts supplying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud computing services to the Israeli occupation military.

The demonstration took place on Monday, following an Associated Press (AP) investigation that revealed Microsoft and OpenAI’s advanced AI models had been utilised by the Israeli occupation military to select bombing targets in recent attacks against Gaza and Lebanon.

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[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, yes, yes, no.

If your point is that I engage in immoral practices; of course I do.

That wasn’t my initial argument though.

As I have said in another comment, if I worked for Microsoft I wouldn’t wear a shirt complaining about my work killing people in a foreign country because I would realise that makes me a hypocrite.

In the same way I wouldn’t be vegan, work for an abattoir and complain to my CEO that killing animals is wrong.

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 1 day ago

so what's the argument? I've been vegan since Obama was president and bike or transit to my job at a public institution; are you just not on my level? personally I'm relieved some of the people stuck at microsoft actually give a shit, probably not enough of them, but it's still a good thing. I'm not in the tech sector but I can appreciate the fact that change has to come from individuals who are toiling within our current system - and that most definitely includes people willing to speak up against the awful shit the c-suite is responsible for choosing to engage in.