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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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[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only five people at Microsoft gave enough fucks to protest. It should have been all of them. They should strike for fucks sakes.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In my experience the majority of tech workers don’t give a fuck about the moral implications of their work. They often justify it with “if I don’t do it someone else will.”

Source: am tech worker, see it all the time

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 17 hours ago

"Once the rockets go up, who care where they come down"