Microsoft employee interrupts CEO’s keynote with pro-Palestinian protest
Protester is engineer who worked on Azure software, which enabled Israeli surveillance of Palestinians
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/19/microsoft-ceo-speech-palestinian-protest
A speech by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was interrupted by protesters over the company’s provision of AI services to the Israeli military.
“BREAKING! No Azure for Apartheid disrupts Satya’s keynote during Microsoft Build! SHUT DOWN MICROSOFT BUILD FOR PALESTINE!” a group of Microsoft workers opposed to the company’s work with Israel said in a social media post.
It includes a video showing a protester rising to his feet and saying, “How about you show how Microsoft is killing Palestinians? How about you show how Israeli war crimes are powered by Azure?”
Joe Lopez, a Microsoft firmware engineer who worked on parts of the company’s cloud-computing platform, Azure, was escorted out the Build conference by security nearly immediately after he confronted Satya Nadella.
The Israeli military has been assisted by artificial intelligence (AI) programmes designed to produce targets with little human oversight. It is not clear to what extent foreign tech giants are directly involved.
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