“Shame on you.”

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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    • @GreyAlien@lemm.eeEnglish
      67•19 hours ago

      In long.

      In short:

      The AI system labeled tens of thousands of Gazans, mostly men, as suspected militants, with a 10% error rate, meaning thousands were likely civilians.

      Human officers spent ~20 seconds per target, often just confirming gender, before approving airstrikes.

      “Where’s Daddy?”: A companion AI tracked targets to their homes, prioritizing bombings at night when families were present.

      The military authorized 15–20 civilian deaths per low-ranking militant and 100+ for senior Hamas officials

      Strikes frequently used unguided munitions, maximizing destruction and civilian harm

      Officers admitted acting as “stamps” for AI decisions, with one calling the process “hunting at large”

      Additional informations: Project Nimbus

    • @tauren@lemm.eeEnglish
      31•21 hours ago

      From the article:

      The Israeli military uses Microsoft Azure to compile information gathered through mass surveillance, which it transcribes and translates, including phone calls, texts and audio messages, according to an Israeli intelligence officer who works with the systems.

      From my understanding, they use AI to automate the processing of text, audio, and video data collected by the intelligence services.

    • @supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      12•19 hours ago

      Stop believing in the veneer of smartness and superiority around these genocidal fuckers.

      There is no NON ELI5 explanation here of how they’re using AI for genocide, because the truth is horrible, stupid and brutal.

      They are using AI because it is the best tool bullshitters have currently to offload blame for things they, individual human beings, chose to do onto obscure abstract entities like corporations, AI decisions and other bullshit.

      There is nothing more to it than that, I promise you, it is all just layers of bullshit that is attempting to obscure culpability for participating in a genocide, and honestly it is the perfect technology for that.

    • @Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zipEnglish
      29•23 hours ago

      AI is being pushed into war machines big time. America and China are both working on it. With ukraine showing how incredibly effective drones are in warfare, just imagine the damage and destruction a swarm of drones controlled by an AI could cause.

    • @j0ester@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•21 hours ago

      There are also many higher education professors doing smart drones. I was in one conference and they were showing off drones flying by themselves and showed the difference between different weather and everything.