Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer' [Verge, The]
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In an email seen by The Verge , Microsoft told Ibtihal Aboussad that their employment has been terminated due to “acts of misconduct.” Aboussad was one of two protesters that interrupted Microsoft's 50th anniversary event on Friday by calling Microsoft's AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, a “war profiteer” and demanding that Microsoft “stop using AI for genocide in our region.” A second protester, Vaniya Agrawal, interrupted Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates , former CEO Steve Ballmer, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella later on in the event. Both Microsoft employees also sent separate emails to thousands of coworkers, calling on Microsoft to cut its contracts with the Israeli government. “Earlier today, you interrupted a speech by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman during the Company's 50th anniversary event in Redmond, Seattle, by yelling and finger-pointing at the CEO before a live audience of thousands of attendees, and making hostile, unprovoked, and highly inappropriate accusations against
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