Microsoft kick five employee out of a township hall case yesterday because they were protest the caller ’s contract bridge with the Israeli military . Microsoft is cater artificial intelligence service models to the Israeli armed forces to help them fight its war in Gaza and Lebanon , a line move that ’s seen as a moral stigma on the party by some of its employee .
On February 25 , Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was on hand at the company ’s campus in Redmond , Washington to babble out about new products . On the balcony above him , five worker resist in a credit line wearing a series of co-ordinated shirts that spell out Satya ’s name and ask the interrogative sentence : “ Does our code drink down kids ? ”
Despite stand up taciturnly – the workers were fleetly removed by Microsoft Security and bar from re - entering their own town Granville Stanley Hall event.pic.twitter.com/3uezvCyHLZ
Microsoft employees protesting a town hall led by CEO Satya Anadella on 28 April 2025.© Photo via No Azure for Apartheid
— No Azure for Apartheid ( @NoAz4Apartheid)February 25 , 2025
Nadella never acknowledged the protestors and they were quietly escort out of the event by security . “ We provide many avenue for all voices to be pick up , ” Microsoft sound out in a statement about the protests . “ Importantly , we ask that this be done in a way that does not cause a business disruption . If that happens , we inquire participants to relocate . We are attached to ensuring our business practices uphold the high standards . ”
But what about the question : “ Does our code kill kid ? ”
According to reporting from theAssociated PressandDrop Site News , the answer is probably yes . Microsoft has a $ 133 million declaration with the Israeli military to allow the Israeli military machine with admission to OpenAI model through Microsoft ’s Azure cloud computing weapons platform . The Israeli military then uses these models to help it make decisions about where and when to aim its airstrikes in Gaza and Lebanon .
Israel ’s role of Azure spiked after Hamas lash out the country on October 7 , 2023 . The Israeli military run massive amounts of surveillance information into Microsoft Azure and then uses its AI good example to sieve through the information and decide adequate targeting locations . Israel told the Associated Press that it ’s been doing this for years , but that a man always makes the final decision to hit a location . A lot of children have die in those strikes .
Not all Microsoft employee are comfortable with the company profit off of Israel ’s state of war in Gaza . The dissent front is call No Azure for Apartheid . “ Microsoft winnings from racial extermination , ” it order in a poston Instagram . “ As revealed in the [ AP probe ] , the Israeli military is Microsoft ’s second - declamatory military customer after the US … the Israeli armed services is one of the strategically most important Microsoft customers and receives top anteriority technical services and reenforcement . ”
No Azure for Apartheid put out a inclination of demands in a blog post last year . It want Microsoft to end its Azure contracts with the Israeli military , disclose all its tie with the country ’s military machine , call for a ceasefire , protect employees , and uphold gratis speech . In October last yr , after these demands were published , Microsoft elicit two employees who organise a watch at the company ’s home office for Palestinians kill in Gaza .
The pain and hurt inflicted on Gaza using AI does n’t end with Microsoft . On Tuesday nighttime , hours after the protestors were kick out of the township hall , President Trump post an AI - give video on Truth Social . Since his inaugural , Trump has said he ’d like to take over Gaza and turn it into a resort . Thevideo he postedshowed what that might look like .
The AI - slop TV is beyond offensive . Elon Musk stand under a shower of money while a song plays . “ No more tunnel , no more reverence , order gaza is finally here . ” In one shot , hoi polloi mill around a cityscape that looks like Los Angeles while a giant halcyon statue of Trump predominate over them .
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