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

submitted 1 day ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think that should be expected given the governing structure of almost all large companies, because they're dictatorships. Employees have no say over who's in leadership, and can be fired more or less without recourse. You wouldn't expect a town hall in Russia or North Korea to allow dissent, would you?

[–] Tyfud@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

100% correct.

When you work for a corporation, you are working for a dictatorship. You have the power to choose which dictatorship you'd like to work for, but you only have whatever power they let you have.

Power that can be snatched away any time of their choosing.