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:
LinkedIn just deleted her profile, I was following her yesterday: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ibtihalaboussad
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Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
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Lmao. These are crazy billionaire pipe dreams.
Humans survive through community. Their wealth doesn’t mean shit.
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They will be killed by their own AI for being oppressive, wasteful and illogical far faster than humans have turned on them.
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.
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This Is Extremely Dangerous To Our Democracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Government
Holy shit, I remember playing NationStates as a youngling, and I think I read the book too? Idk, it’s been 20 years.
Goes to prove that LinkedIn is just exactly like every other social media platform despite what many people seem to believe.
Also, Microsoft owns LinkedIn so that might have something to do with it.
Makes sense its owned by MS
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
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You’re sure she didn’t delete it herself due to the attention she was probably getting?
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.
Could be she set it to private. It’s what I did when I left my last gig.
Wow.
Or she set it to private because she was overwhelmed with the messages she was getting.