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Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ (www.theverge.com)
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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 week ago

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

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Nexz@feddit.nl 45 points 1 week ago

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

[-] tarius@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

Makes sense its owned by MS

[-] anachrohack@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

[-] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

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

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