A protester interrupted the main note focused on Microsoft’s co -pilot on Friday afternoon, calling attention to the company’s reported treatment with the Israeli army.
“What a shame,” said the protester. “He says he cares to use AI forever, but Microsoft sells weapons from the Israeli army … Every Microsoft has blood in their hands.”
Microsoft Head of Consumer AI Mustafa Suleyman, whose part of the key note was interrupted by the protester, replied several times: “I listen to his protest, thank you.”
In February, Associated Press reported That sophisticated Microsoft and OpenAi AI models, Microsoft’s nearby collaborator, had been used as part of an Israeli military program to select bombing goals during recent wars in Gaza and Lebanon. As reported, a wandering bombing led to the death of several girls and their grandmother.
Several protests They have been organized by the alleged participation of Microsoft, even by the company’s own employees.
Updated at 12:20 PM Pacific: a second protester interrupted a discussion panel that involved the CEO Satya Nadella and former CEO Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates later in the key note. Verge’s reports That both protests were not coordinated by not blue for apartheid, a long -term movement among some Microsoft employees.
