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Microsoft employees removed from town hall for protesting AI contracts with Israeli military (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Five Microsoft employees were removed during a company town hall meeting after staging a protest against the company’s contracts supplying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud computing services to the Israeli occupation military.

The demonstration took place on Monday, following an Associated Press (AP) investigation that revealed Microsoft and OpenAI’s advanced AI models had been utilised by the Israeli occupation military to select bombing targets in recent attacks against Gaza and Lebanon.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

People have families to feed. How long are you willing to go without income before you consider Amazon or Meta? How long do your morals hold up before you're facing eviction. It's super easy to hold to them and judge others when you're fully employed, but buddy I gotta tell you, I've been laid off twice in 3 years, and I stared down losing my house or taking a job at big tech. I was lucky that a smaller company came in last second and I landed there, but I hold zero ill will to those who work there.

Most of them have no assumptions to what they do, but individuals need to feed their families, to provide a roof over their heads, they have kids who need college paid for or medical insurance. You judge them, but I question what you would do in the same position. If you were facing losing your home and you had Amazon sitting there offering more money then you've ever made - how long would you hold onto those morals?

I don't even expect an answer. I don't expect it to be truthful.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is the fact that you’re so defensive over my comment not an indication for you to do a little introspection?

You can’t claim the moral high ground if you’re enabling the very thing you’re complaining about.

I don’t comprehend why people find this controversial other than that they may be uncomfortable with their own choices and dislike when some random on the internet has pointed it out to them.

If I worked for Microsoft I wouldn’t wear a shirt complaining about my work being used to kill kids because I would have the presence of mind to realise that I would be a hypocrite if I did that.

[–] ripcord 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It doesn't seem controversial at all. People seem to pretty consistently say your take sucks and that you're wrong.