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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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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 77 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

LinkedIn just deleted her profile, I was following her yesterday: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ibtihalaboussad

[–] burak@lemmy.ml 41 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It’s crazy how democracy is now implicitly democracy incorporated(TM) where individuals are silenced for expressing opinions about corporations. Vital institutions for a functioning democracy like media is now owned by big corporations, worse yet, in an increasingly monopolized way, blurring the lines between unelected corporations and elected government (who are also bought by corporations after or before they are elected)

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] burak@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I fear that we have little time before they become self-sufficient enough on an island like Zuck and don’t need us bickering at each other or outputing wealth for them. Back to the cavemen times where the guys on top control the masses through brute force. This time AI-powered brute force. With advancements in robotics and multimodal AI, what stops Zuck or Musk from training their own army of robots (both humanoid and otherwise) and instruct them to detain or destroy people? They have the means and the data.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

IMO since they can't even seem to wipe their own asses without us the rich will never be self sufficient or self sustaining on their own.

[–] burak@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Imagine: an AI-powered ass wiper for the rich but it goes ballistic in the middle of it all and starts smearing shit all over the rich boomer who thought an AI-powered ass wiper was a good idea.

Jokes aside, I want to note there are many of the rich we don’t see clowning in the media like Müsk.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 35 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Goes to prove that LinkedIn is just exactly like every other social media platform despite what many people seem to believe.

[–] Nexz@feddit.nl 34 points 15 hours ago

Also, Microsoft owns LinkedIn so that might have something to do with it.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 14 hours ago

LinkedIn as in the website owned by Microsoft? You don't say!

And Microsoft will now just make sure she vant find a job anywhere? You don't say

[–] tarius@lemmy.ml 16 points 16 hours ago

Makes sense its owned by MS

[–] GreyAlien@lemm.ee 11 points 16 hours ago

Probably the mass reporting coupled with the usual rape and death threats from the deranged zionists.