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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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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ibtihalaboussad

Nearly 4 years in AI at M$. PhD from Harvard. She's got a lot more to lose than the rest of us

edit: I have no idea where or why I thought she had a PhD

EDIT: LINKEDIN TOOK DOWN HER PROFILE

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

"Nearly 4 years in AI at M$. PhD from Harvard. She’s got a lot more to lose than the rest of us"

She has a BSc in Computer Science. There's no mention of a PhD on her LinkedIn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Looks like you're right, edited my comment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

She does?