Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ | The Verge
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.”
This is making me think about pacifist activism and whether it is still a thing in times like this. Not that this woman represents pacifism. I don’t think she does. But I’m pondering a few ideas I want to write about. I have the title for the post: Si vis pacem, para bellum.