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.
If you worked on creating Ai sorry but you must have known it would eventually be used for evil
If you worked on smithing knives sorry but you must have known eventually someone would get stabbed
If you worked on building cars sorry but you must have known eventually someone would drive one into a protest
If you worked on producing painkillers sorry but you must have known eventually someone would trigger an opioid epidemic for their personal gain
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A tool is a tool. Regulation and responsibility determine the associated dangers.
Exactly: “Let’s make something that removes the human decision making from the process… Huh, it’s evil?!”
There is no causality there.