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Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’

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Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’

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Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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The former employee disrupted Microsoft’s 50th-anniversary event.
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      Problems can be ongoing or increase in severity. Just because it’s been an issue for a while doesn’t mean it’s too late for change.

      Also, some people don’t have the luxury to choose an ethical employer (if they even exist).

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          Ethical options?

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          …maybe.

          Or, hear me out, the dude specifically applied for Microsoft with the intention of changing shit.

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      Direct participation in the military systems for a genocide is a tad further than the military industrial complex.

      The message is that people participating in genocide will not be made at the very least very uncomfortable for doing so.

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          An active mass genocide is an odd time to make a statement?

          Microsoft lied about not supplying the IDF military cloud in the past.

          And AI is a far more direct contribution to genocide than excel support.

          Plenty of reasons to do it now. And better now than tomorrow.

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          Literally this

          It’s like they are signaling to the world how virtuous they are

          A kind of high ground moral messaging if you will

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