Last Friday, two software engineers generally protested the use of Microsoft’s AI technology by the Israeli military. Then the International Boycott, the Movement of the Movement of the Dwees and Banks (BDS) movement earlier this week to boycott the Xbox (Via Rock paper shotgun) It has been reported after that, until this Monday, these two software engineers have been fired by Microsoft.
According to emails and internal communication viewed by CNBC, AI software engineer Abu AbuSad was told that his job would be eliminated on the basis of “just, deliberately mismanagement, disobedience or deliberate duty.” Fellow protesters Vaniya Agarwal intended to resign from Microsoft on April 11, but the company wrote a letter on Monday stating that it had decided to immediately make the resignation of (this day).
In the case of AbuSad, Microsoft cited its protest directly. Microsoft wrote through internal communication that the company raised the issue with the public’s public, and claimed that AbuSad could raise “secret” concerns with one of his manager or global employees.
The company wrote, “Instead, you deliberately chose to disrupt Microsoft AI’s CEO Mustafa Solomon’s speech,” and it “has concluded that your mismanagement is designed to gain defamation and create more and more interruptions in this extremely expected event.” Finally, the company told AbuSad, “The immediate end of your job is the right answer.”
As if It was reported by the app beforeThe Israeli military has rapidly relied on Microsoft’s AI technology after the deadly Hamas’s deadly attack on October 7, 2023, which has only become the second largest military user behind the US military. In March 2024, the use of the Israeli army AI increased the “200 times” rate before the October 7 attack.
According to the AP, the Israeli army uses AI to find a wide range of intelligence, (intercept) communication and (…) to find suspicious speeches or behaviors and learn the movement of its enemies (through supervision), “with their investigation, AI’s false positives are also positive.
To briefly recover during Microsoft’s 50th anniversary program in Washington’s Redmund last week, Esbeth AbuSad challenged Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman when he went to stage. He said, “Mustafa, you are ashamed. You claim that you care for the use of AI for good for the Form, but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli army. Fifty thousand people have been killed, and Microsoft strengthens this genocide in our region.” Since AbuSad was taken from the event, he said, “You have blood on your hands. Microsoft has blood on all hands.”
On the same day, a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement provided to the PC Gamer, “We provide many ways to listen to all the voices. The important thing is that we say that it should be done in a way that does not disturb the business. If this happens, we ask the participants to relocate.” However, this is not the first time that Microsoft has fired employees who had earlier taken a public stand on the dispute. In October 2024, Abdul Mohammed and Hassam Nasr were fired after organizing a vigilance for Palestinians killed in Gaza..
After his refusal to the anniversary incident, AbuSad sent an email to several Microsoft executives, including Mustafa Suleiman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Finance Chief Amy Hood, Operating Chief Carolina Daiback, and Microsoft President Brad Smith.
In this email, AbuSad wrote his position, “I talked today because after knowing that my organ is giving strength to the genocide of my people in Palestine, I have not seen any other moral choice. This is especially true when I have seen Microsoft trying to overcome this problem and try to overcome any of their fellow workers.” Internal communications revealed that Microsoft saw this email written by AbuSad as an interior that (he deliberately) was engaged in mismanagement (…).
Software engineer Venia Agarwal also spoke in a separate meeting with Microsoft executives, which also took place last Friday, which was interrupted by Satya Nadella. He also created an email in which his stance was further made, “In the last 1.5 years, I am more familiar with Microsoft’s growing role in the military industrial complex.” Agarwal Microsoft claims that it is a “joint”, that the company is a “digital weapon manufacturer that strengthens surveillance, colorful and genocide,” and that “by working for this company, we are all complicated.”
Some of this language resonate through BDS, which Also described Microsoft “Perhaps Israel’s illegal occupation, the most complex tech company of the ongoing genocide against the colorful government and 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.”
The organization has then called on the concert to cancel the Xbox Game Pass subscription to the company to pressure the company. Demand for boycott. “
In his initial email, AbuSad also included a link to the ninezor for colorfulness, which calls Microsoft an organization to eliminate “its direct and indirect complications in Israeli colorful and genocide.” The objectives of this organization have the help of several Microsoft employees, who have obtained more than a thousand petition signatures and featured words. “We refuse to be involved” on its landing page.
