[Tech Thoughts] In time of war, tension, will tech giants ever sort out their moral compass?

During Microsoft's 50th anniversary, employees protest the Israeli military's use of the company's AI models in their bombing operations. Will the internal pushback lead to changes?

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A second protester, employee Vaniya Agrawal, also interrupted a later portion of Microsoft’s event and was also fired.revealing how artificial intelligence models from Microsoft and OpenAI were being used by the Israeli military to help select bombing targets in its offensives in Gaza and Lebanon, and added details of a 2023 airstrike which mistakenly killed members of a Lebanese family who were riding in a vehicle.

Those in power and those who feign ignorance might say technology and its use should be the least of our worries, but it’s important to also fight the narrative that all technological advancement is a net positive for the world — there are tangible and intangible costs associated with tech that need to be discerned.

and alienating its writers and editors, technology now and always has had a political side to it, and it deserves to be scrutinized, all the time, everywhere, by everyone without fear of reprisal.As such, I respect those who push back on the corporate overlords who hold more power. It is a brave, dangerous, and seemingly sometimes futile thing they do to protest injustice.

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