Microsoft workers said they were expelled after the protest of the fifty anniversary of the Israel contract
Microsoft launched two The employees who were cut off Company Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary To protest its work, which provides artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli army, according to a group representing workers.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.
The protests started on Friday when a Microsoft Ibtihal AbousSad software engineer went to a stage where an executive official was announcing the features of a new product and a long -term vision for AI’s Microsoft’s ambitions.
“You claim that you are interested in using artificial intelligence forever, but Microsoft sells the IDF’s artificial weapons,” Abusad shouted at Microsoft Ai Mustafa Soleyman. “Fifty thousand people have died and Microsoft operates this genocide in our region.”
Solomon’s protest was forced to stop his speech, which was broadcast from the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. Among the participants in the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Microsoft, co -founder Bill Gates and former CEO Steve Palmer.
“Thank you for your protest, I hear you,” said Suleiman. Abu Sadad continued, and shouted that Suleiman and “Microsoft” were blood on their hands. She also threw the stage of Kefiyeh scarf, which became a symbol of supporting the Palestinian people, before hunting from this event.
The second protester, Microsoft Vaniya Agrawal employee, interrupted the later part of the event.
AbousSad was invited on Monday to a video call with a representative of human resources that were said to have been finished immediately. AGRAWAL was notified by email, according to the Advocacy no Azure for Apartheid, which protested the sale of the Microsoft Azure to Israel.
Investigation by Associated PressIt was revealed earlier this yearArtificial intelligence models were used from Microsoft and Openai as part of an Israeli military program to choose the targets of bombing during the recent wars in Gaza and Lebanon. The story also contained details of a wrong Israeli air strike in 2023, which struck a vehicle carrying members of a Lebanese family, killing three young girls and grandmother.
In February, five Microsoft employees wereHe was expelled from a meetingWith CEO Satia Nadella to protest contracts.
A statement from the company said on Friday. “Most importantly, we ask that this be done in a way that does not cause a work disturbance. If this happens, we ask the participants to move. We are committed to ensuring support for our commercial practices above the standards.”
Microsoft refused to say on Friday if she was taking more measures. AbousSad AP told that she had lost access to her work accounts shortly after the protest and could not log in again.
Dozens of Google workers were launched last year after the internal protests surrounding a contract that the technology company suffers with the Israeli government. Employees of Google offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, target a $ 1.2 billion deal known as Project Nimbus, which offers artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli government.
Google workers later filed a complaint with the National Council for Labor Relations in an attempt to restore their jobs.
This story was originally shown on Fortune.com
