REDMOND, Washington — A pro-Palestinian protester interrupts the keynote event of Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebration, the latest backlash over the tech industry’s work to supply artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military.
The protest happens as Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman presents product updates and a long-term vision for the company’s AI assistant product, Copilot, to an audience that includes Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and former CEO Steve Ballmer.
“Mustafa, shame on you,” shouts a woman in the audience. “You claim that you care about using AI for good but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli military.”
TL;DR: she works on the speech to text AI product on Azure, which is used by Israel for some of their operations.
Look, I understand her desire to stop fighting in Palestine, but by that logic, we should also be protesting every software and computer manufacturer.
Technology? I feel like this is about a genocide and not about technology.
Things can be about multiple things.
This is on-topic, because it happened at Microsoft’s event.
I’m unsure how this post intrigues my interests in technology. I don’t think this is related at all.
It’s like posting a 9/11 post in a Boeing community so all the Boeing nerds can learn which plane model was used. I feel like there are more relevant communities for it.
Which of your chromosomes is defective?
