Five Microsoft employees were ejected from a meeting with the company's chief executive for protesting contracts to provide artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to the Israeli military. A group of workers has been raising concerns within the company for months about Microsoft providing services to the Israeli military through its Azure cloud computing platform. The AP's investigation included exclusive …
TEL AVIV, Israel — U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services. “The implications are enormous for the role of tech in enabling this type of unethical and unlawful warfare going forward.” Israel’s Use of AI and …
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Putting my two girls to bed is a daily ritual for me. In what Amnesty International calls “automated apartheid”, the Israeli authorities have deployed such sophisticated surveillance mechanisms – and so many of them – that Palestine today looks like a much worse version of George Orwell’s 1984. “he drone is constantly with me in my bedroom – worry and …
