Doha -A Moroccan engineer who works at Microsoft, IBTIHAL ABOUSDAD, made international headlines after being faced with the company’s AI manager of the company during the 50th anniversary of Microsoft because of the participation of the Tech -Riesen in Israeli military operations in Gaza.
During a presentation of Microsoft’s AI assistant on Friday in the headquarters of the company in Redmond, Washington, the graduate of Microsoft Ai, Mustafa Sulyman, interrupted the speech by Microsoft Ai and accused the company of supporting military operations that killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.
“Mustafa, shame about you”, Aboussad explained While the stage is approaching. “You claim that you want to use Ai for good, but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli military. Fifty thousand people have died and Microsoft drives this genocide in our region.”
The protest came in the course of an investigation by Associated Press last February unveiled The models for artificial intelligence from Microsoft and Openai were used in Israeli military programs to select bombing in Gaza and Lebanon.
A tragic incident was described in the study, in which a faulty Israeli air raid killed three young girls and her grandmother in Lebanon in 2023.
Similarly, another investigation by the Israeli newspaper +972 magazine in January revealed Microsoft’s extensive military commitment with documents of the leaked Ministry of Defense, which shows that the company in Israel had “a footprint in all important military infrastructures”, while the use of AI and the cloud services by the Israeli army increased 64 times after October after October.
Before Aboussad was brought out from the event that was brought out live, she threw a Keffiyeh scarf – a symbol of the Palestinian solidarity – on stage and explained that Sulyman and “all of Microsoft” had “blood in her hands”.
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Sulyman replied to the protest and said: “Thank you for your protest, I’ll hear you.”
A second Microsoft employee, Vaniya Agrawal, later interrupted another segment of the celebration with Bill Gates, co-co-founder of Microsoft, the current CEO Satya Nadella, and the former CEO Steve Ballmer-Ihrem first public appearance since 2014.
The protest marks an escalation in the internal dissent in Microsoft. In February, five employees from a meeting with CEO Nadella were ejected because they protested against the same military contracts.
After the protest on Friday, both Aboussad and Agrawal lost access to their work accounts, which, according to Associated Press reports, may indicate their termination.
Microsoft gave an explanation and said: “We offer many ways that all voices are heard. It is important that this is done in a way that does not cause corporate disorder. If this happens, we ask the participants. We strive to ensure that our business practices maintain the highest standards.”
Israel smashed the January armor with a surprising air campaign on March 18, killed 1,249 Palestinians and injured 3,022. Netanyahu And the former Minister of Defense Gallant looks like ICC arrest for war crimes, while Israel faces the ICJ.
According to the Gaza’s Ministry of Health, the genocide campaign of Israel has led to at least 50,609, who have confirmed Palestinian deaths and 115,063 wounded. The Gaza Government media office has updated its fatality to more than 61,700 fatalities, including thousands of suspected deaths under rubble.
The protest increases growing demonstrations in various companies and educational institutions about their relationships with Israel in the middle of the Assembly Humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, where almost the entire 2.3 million population was sold internally and faces heavy food shortage.
