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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 115 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Or she set it to private because she was overwhelmed with the messages she was getting.

[–] anachrohack@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

You're sure she didn't delete it herself due to the attention she was probably getting?

[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Of course they're not sure. This is an internet forum. The account being gone must mean it was deleted. Honestly, she was probably getting so much bat shit crazy messages, she deleted it herself. That makes the most sense.

3rd citation is a reference to Micro

Could be she set it to private. It's what I did when I left my last gig.

[–] burak@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 day ago (3 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 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] burak@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] RedPostItNote@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Lmao. These are crazy billionaire pipe dreams.

Humans survive through community. Their wealth doesn’t mean shit.

[–] burak@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

"Humans survive through community": I agree with this but this is not an eternal truth. What that community looks like and consists of have always changed. Community has meant a group of people we hunted together in a jungle, our neighbors, and now more and more people you hang out online, a mixture of these or other groups etc. I can't see any reason why a community can't be a group of artificially intelligent robots in the near future. "Their wealth doesn’t mean shit": This is a take that is idealistic at best and juvenile at worst. It also reads like an oxymoron. "Wealth" "doesn't mean shit". Wealth means everything in many of the world's societies, western ones especially so.

[–] RedPostItNote@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

They will be killed by their own AI for being oppressive, wasteful and illogical far faster than humans have turned on them.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day 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 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 44 points 1 day 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 46 points 1 day ago

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

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day 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 20 points 1 day ago

Makes sense its owned by MS

[–] GreyAlien@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago

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